Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Note, for example, that libc refers to /usr/share/zoneinfo by >> absolute path. > > After reflecting more about this, that's an awfully strong point. > > Maybe we should go back to the original patch from Sun --- that is, > just have the configure option change pg_TZDIR() to return a hardwired > absolute path. The symlink idea has clearly got more risks than we > understood during the prior discussion. I think the main argument > in favor was that it allowed switching between PG-local and system > TZ databases without recompiling the server, but is anyone really > interested in doing that?
If you're talking about a dev scenario you can already do this - just don't use the configure parameter and manually symlink. I can't really see why someone using the RPM (or whatever) version would want to do it. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
