Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Sorry, my point is that it is likely that we would be able to use a hardwired path, because the path is the same in many systems. Maybe we could turn the configure option into enabling a lookup into /usr/share/zoneinfo (hardwired). So if the files are there it uses them. No need to set a symlink of any kind. It would be even better to use --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo which enables lookup in the specified dir, hardwired at compile time in the executable (I'm not aware if the patch already accepts a path argument -- seems like the only sane choice). No symlink needed. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
