Re: FW: Timezone library

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FW: Timezone library
Date: 2004-04-29 04:49:57
Message-ID: 200404290449.i3T4nvJ02633@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Tuesday 27 April 2004 05:06 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > I assume we want to integrate our own timezone library into PostgreSQL.
> > We have talked about it for a few releases, and Magnus has done it for
> > us because Win32 needs it for pre-1970 dates.
> >
> > The patch to PostgreSQL is 100 lines of diff, and the changes to Olson's
> > timezone library is 100 lines of diff. The timezone library itself is
> > 173k tgz file, which will add to our download size, but not too much.
>
> The patch says: Note! Not integrated with makefile/autoconf. Bruce has
> promised to fix this :-)
>
> Where is the patch for that? ISTM that this should be available first or the
> build will be broken?

I will do the integration when I apply the patch. It is a simple enable
for win32 port only at this point. If we want to use it for Unix, we
can discuss that.

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