On 14-5-2018 09:13, Simonov Denis via Firebird-devel wrote:
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrian...@gmail.com> wrote Thu, 10 May
2018 18:21:49 +0300:
Hi!
I want to create a virtual table that lists available time zones.
For now there is RDB$ (non-virtual), MON$ (virtual, but all about
monitoring), SEC$ (security plugin).
What prefix should TIME_ZONES have?
Adriano
I'm wondering how the time zones will be updated?
Will they be distributed as a separate file in Firebird?
Can I register a new rule for time zones without updating Firebird and
the backup/restore process?
If so, is there a DLL syntax for registering a new time zone rule?
If you look at PostgreSQL, they release a new point release with updated
time zone data. I don't see why we need to make this more complicated
than that.
However that does mean, that we need to have a quick turn-around time
for new releases (especially given the annoying habit of some countries
of making changes like this on short notice). If we can't do that, we
will need to provide some way to make update the time zone data
easily(!). No hacks or requiring users to recompile ICU or anything like
that.
Mark
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Mark Rotteveel
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