Re: CVS compile failure

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I am seeing a compile failure in current CVS from strptime():
>> ./backend/access/transam/xlog.c: if (strptime(tok2, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm) == NULL)
>> BSD/OS does not have that function.

> Under FreeBSD:
> " The strptime() function does not correctly handle multibyte characters in
> the format argument"
> Not sure how critical that is for what you are doing, mind you ...

Not at all, since in this call the format is the fixed constant
"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S". But it's odd that your BSD variant has strptime()
where Bruce's does not.

I suppose it doesn't much matter though: we have to recode without
strptime. No big deal. I'll fix it tomorrow if no one beats me to it.

regards, tom lane