| From: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New tzdata available |
| Date: | 2007-11-09 17:27:39 |
| Message-ID: | 4734988B.2050901@sun.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> writes:
>> I think the first step is to install the zic binary along the rest of
>> the stuff, so that a user without the source tree can compile the tzdata
>> package. Unless the compiled representation is portable, which I kinda
>> doubt?
>
> Actually, it is. In fact, it's so portable that their recent extension
> to 64-bits (for Y2038) is fully upward compatible with existing programs.
>
> So one solution is to just provide a zipfile of the updated timezone
> file tree and tell people to drop it into their installations.
+1 it seems a best solution for me.
Zdenek
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