| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, mledford(at)ugaalum(dot)uga(dot)edu |
| Subject: | Re: Daylight Saving Time question PostgreSQL 8.1.4 |
| Date: | 2007-03-14 15:05:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20070314150539.GD10025@alvh.no-ip.org |
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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.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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