| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system |
| Date: | 2007-08-23 04:37:00 |
| Message-ID: | 16909.1187843820@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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[ catching up on today's email ]
Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> In the first place, it is considered bad form for a package to install
>> an absolute symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo:
> Fwiw Debian also faced this issue and came to a different conclusion.
That's fair enough --- as I mentioned, I wasn't 100% convinced either.
But those are the rules for RHEL/Fedora packages and I'm gonna play
by them.
The bottom line here is that accessing a system copy of the zic database
is going to be so system-dependent that I'm not sure Peter's patch will
be useful to anybody.
> Why would --with-zoneinfo want to use a symlink though? Shouldn't it just
> compile the binary to use the path specified directly?
AFAICS that just moves the problem to a different place, one where an
admin *can't* fix it without recompiling ...
regards, tom lane
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