Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab
Date: 2009-04-10 19:12:06
Message-ID: 20090410191206.GC23155@fetter.org
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:01:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom,
> >> Like what? I do not actually believe that anyone needs an
> >> interactive geographical timezone selector based on
> >> pg_timezone_names.
>
> > Actually, considering that PostgreSQL is the leading open source
> > GIS database, I expect that a *lot* of people want this.
>
> Surely we'd have seen more complaints, then.

You're setting a pretty high bar here for a pretty small change which
will cause a pretty large increase in convenience. What is the actual
problem here?

Cheers,
David.
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