| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> |
| Subject: | Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704) |
| Date: | 2009-03-10 18:59:22 |
| Message-ID: | 1927.1236711562@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> You're just putting the hard decision onto packagers, who have no more
>> knowledge than you do about what their users want, and (probably)
>> considerably less understanding of the benefits/risks of some new
>> configure option they happen to notice.
> Which is exactly why we have two types of RPMS, --integer-datetimes and
> not.
Maybe Devrim is doing that, but nobody else is. Debian went for
--integer-datetimes years ago, Red Hat stuck with floats. Nobody
is going to go to the trouble of maintaining two sets of RPMs, even
assuming they notice there's a choice.
regards, tom lane
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