Re: [HACKERS] initdb fails - postgresql does not support leap seconds

2007-03-19 Thread Eric
Can't remember if it was in this forum, but a few people asked why I was downloading source and not binary. The reason is that I am experimenting with a different indexing (multi-dimensional) method. I looked hard at GiST, but it doesn't look like GiST supports multi- dimensional indexing method

Re: [HACKERS] initdb fails - postgresql does not support leap seconds

2007-03-18 Thread Eric
Sorry, here's the first post, just now included hackers (more info in previous post)... The following error occurred when issuing a vanilla initdb command on my Windows system. FATAL: could not select a suitable default timezone DETAIL: It appears that your GMT time zone uses leap seconds. Post

Re: [HACKERS] initdb fails - postgresql does not support leap seconds

2007-03-18 Thread Eric
A little more info that might help: I had to put a hack into two .h files (libpq.h, libpq-int.h) and add typedef int ssize_t to get things to compile. I did notice that libpq-int.h had this typedef inside an #ifdef WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER which apparently wasn't triggered.

Re: [HACKERS] initdb fails - postgresql does not support leap seconds

2007-03-18 Thread Eric
Have now also tried: downloading 8.2.2 and compiling it - no luck when running initdb (same error) rerunning configure with and without --with-includes=/mingw/include -- with-libraries=/mingw/lib (always running --without-zlib) - same error I have been searching newsgroups, archives, etc. in hop