| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New tzdata available |
| Date: | 2007-11-09 16:44:19 |
| Message-ID: | 11497.1194626659@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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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.
regards, tom lane
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