| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug |
| Date: | 2002-05-21 21:14:13 |
| Message-ID: | 29543.1022015653@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Eivind_Glomsr=F8d?= <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> writes:
> Relying on nonstandardized/nondocumented behaviour is a program bug, not a
> glibc bug. PostgreSQL needs fixing. Since we ship both, we're looking at
> it, but glibc is not the component with a problem.
A library that can no longer cope with dates before 1970 is NOT my idea
of a component without a problem. We will be looking at ways to get
around glibc's breakage at the application level, since we have little
alternative other than to declare Linux an unsupported platform;
but it's still glibc (and the ISO spec:-() that are broken.
regards, tom lane
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