Re: "make report" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: "make report"
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0204241411000.682-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: "make report"  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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Thomas Lockhart writes:

> Right. The two areas which come to mind are integer availability and the
> timezone support (as you might know we support *three* different time
> zone models). At the moment, none of the developers know the features
> supported on the platforms we claim to support. Which platforms do not
> have int8 support still?

"Still" is the wrong word.  There used to be platforms with certain areas
of trouble, and those platforms don't go away.

But since you asked:  QNX 4 and SCO OpenServer are known to lack 8 byte
integers.

> Which do not have time zone interfaces fitting
> into the two "zonefull" styles? I'd like to know, but istm that the
> people *with* the platforms could do this much more easily than those
> without. What am I missing here??

I don't think polling users this way will yield reliable results.  If you
really want to find out, break something and see if someone complains.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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