Re: pgsql-server/ /configure /configure.in rc/incl ...

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > Well, that's an okay position if your time horizon is measured in days.
> > > But I would like to see us using that code on all platforms before 7.5
> > > feature freeze. It's silly to be carrying that code around and not
> > > using it, when we have constant problems with the C-library-based time
> > > zone code, plus big portability issues arising from inconsistency of
> > > time zone names across platforms. For example, for the first time we'd
> > > be able to actually document the set of time zone names accepted by
> > > SET TIMEZONE, and *reliably* detect whether a provided name is really
> > > legal.
> > >
> > > Frankly I would never have accepted this patch if I thought it were
> > > going to be a Windows-only hack; I would have held out for something a
> > > lot smaller. In my mind the principal reason for having it is not Win32
> > > at all, but solving the multi-platform problems we've always had with
> > > time zone handling.
> >
> > It goes with the Win32 approach of doing as little as possible to the
> > Unix port. If the Unix folks want it, we can enable it, but the Win32
> > folks aren't going to force it on Unix until Unix wants it and has
> > tested it.
>
> Unix wants it and is willing to spend the next month testing it to make
> sure its good :)

OK, let me get it working on my Unix first and then I will give
instructions for others on how to test it. Once a few have tested that
it works, we can enable it for all ports and rip out the PGTZ tests.

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