Re: [PATCHES] Using system time zone database

2007-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 13:03 schrieb Magnus Hagander: > Could there be some way for configure to automatically check that the > timezone format used on the system is in fact compatible? Such as checking > if it can load a well-known timezone and that it behaves properly? You cannot assume tha

Re: [PATCHES] Using system time zone database

2007-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 12:46 schrieb Zdenek Kotala: > Yes, e.g. Solaris use this solution for 8.2 packages. I sent little bit > different patch few months ago. You can see discussion there: Yes, my patch just uses the symlink solution that people already use. > Also could be good to modify a

Re: [PATCHES] Using system time zone database

2007-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:24:11AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Because there seems to be an increasing trend among packagers to drop the > PostgreSQL-supplied time zone data and use the operating system's instead, I > figured it would be good to define an official and documented way to do th

Re: [PATCHES] Using system time zone database

2007-08-17 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Because there seems to be an increasing trend among packagers to drop the PostgreSQL-supplied time zone data and use the operating system's instead, Because it seems government in many countries make a decision to make live harder. :( I figured it would be good to def

[PATCHES] Using system time zone database

2007-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Because there seems to be an increasing trend among packagers to drop the PostgreSQL-supplied time zone data and use the operating system's instead, I figured it would be good to define an official and documented way to do this. If we could get, say, the Linux, BSD, and Solaris packagers to ado