Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > >I think that from a data integrity point of view the current system is > >the best. At the very least what you propose is a modularity violation: > >Postgres depending on undocumented private data of another system > >component. > > I don't think you can reasonably describe the system timezone database > as undocumented private data. Plenty of other systems rely on it, as we > used to do.
No -- we relied on the libc's TZ API, which is not the same. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
