Re: AW: AW: AW: Re: tinterval - operator problems on AIX

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: Re: tinterval - operator problems on AIX
Date: 2001-01-19 16:23:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0101191719150.1322-100000@peter.localdomain
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Pete Forman writes:

> I agree that configure is the way to go. What if someone has
> installed a third party library to provide a better mktime() and
> localtime()?

Exactly. What if someone has a binary PostgreSQL package installed, then
updates his time library to something supposedly binary compatible and
finds out that PostgreSQL still doesn't use the enhanced capabilities?
Runtime behaviour checks are done at runtime, it's as simple as that.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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