Re: AW: Re: tinterval - operator problems on AIX

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com>
Cc: lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org, Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: Re: tinterval - operator problems on AIX
Date: 2001-01-12 15:48:09
Message-ID: 15898.979314489@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com> writes:
> Thinking about that a bit more, I think that tm_isdst should not be
> written into.

IIRC, setting isdst to -1 was necessary to get the right behavior across
DST boundaries on more-mainstream systems. I do not think it's
acceptable to do worse on systems with good time libraries in order to
improve behavior on fundamentally broken ones.

regards, tom lane

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