Re: Timezone matching script (win32)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> This script should probably live in CVS, and be run when Microsoft
>>> releases new timezone data. Where should I put it - src/timezone or
>>> somewhere in src/tools? (it does read pgtz.c in the current directory,
>>> but it doesn't actually edit the file - just outputs on stdout a list
>>> of changes to be made to the file manually)
>
>> I think it should live in src/tools and be mentioned in
>> src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
>
> +1 for src/tools/, but the documentation note should probably be in
> src/timezone/README.  This task isn't especially coupled to release
> times (at least not *our* release times).  And it's definitely not
> likely to happen at the times anyone would be consulting
> RELEASE_CHANGES, because none of the release leadup work gets done
> on Windows machines.

I've applied the script with a small change to both the README and the
RELEASE_CHANGES files. Feel free to adjust that if you feel it's
wrong.

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