Re: Proposal for better support of time-varying timezone abbreviations

On 15.10.2014 00:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> * I've not touched ecpg except for cosmetic changes to keep the struct
> definitions in sync, and to fix the previously-mentioned bogus free()
> attempt. I doubt that it would be worth teaching ecpg how to access the
> zic timezone database --- the problem of configuring where to find those
> files seems like more trouble than it's worth given the lack of
> complaints. I'm not sure what we should do about the obsolete timezone
> abbreviations in its table.

Maybe we should just remove thme for the new release. Yes, that might
break some applications, but then the server doesn't know these either,
so the applications might break anyway.

Michael
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