Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
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 19:15:38
Message-ID: 28935.1239390938@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> 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?

I gave my reasoning before: widening this API has possibly nontrivial
future maintenance costs, and the actual use-case for the data is
unconvincing.

regards, tom lane

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