Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system
Date: 2007-08-23 17:19:17
Message-ID: 9184.1187889557@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ shrug... ] This just reinforces my point: if every packager is going
>> to have his own opinion about how to do it, there's little point in
>> trying to provide a pre-fab solution.

> Well, there's a point if every packager have his own opinion but the
> opinions all happen to be equal.

I think we've already found out that the opinions *aren't* equal.
So far the score seems to be:
Red Hat: will use relative symlink
Solaris: will use hardwired path in program
???: will use absolute symlink
Peter's patch supports only the third case, which no packager has yet
committed to use (though I suppose Debian might like to). It just gets
in the way for the other two cases.

regards, tom lane

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