Re: Update timezone to C99

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Update timezone to C99
Date: 2025-11-12 18:02:03
Message-ID: 2378188.1762970523@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
> To fix that, I re-downloaded the upstream code (same version as before),
> applied the fixes described in src/timezone/README, except those related
> to the integer types, and then put back the PostgreSQL-specific code and
> massaged things to remove irrelevant differences. There were a few
> other minor and cosmetic changes that I left in to improve alignment
> with upstream.

Hm, I've had "re-sync TZ code with upstream" on my TODO list for
several years now. I believe there's been quite a bit of churn
upstream since tzcode2020d, some of it oriented towards this same
issue of code modernization. Maybe we should try to sync with
a newer release while we're at it.

regards, tom lane

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