Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab

"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I gave my reasoning before: widening this API has possibly nontrivial
>> future maintenance costs, and the actual use-case for the data is
>> unconvincing.

> It seems to me that the immediate patch to simply copy zone.tab has no
> effect on the API. That's a debate worth having, but I don't think
> it's relevant to this particular patch, is it?

Well, as far as I can see the immediate patch is pretty useless without
an API change in front of it. Andrew was threatening to write a
pgfoundry module that read from the file directly, but considering that
such a thing would require superuser privileges it doesn't seem like a
particularly attractive answer.

The immediate patch has other bogosities too: why not iso3166.tab too,
if we are going to start exposing this data? Without an agreed-on API
change we don't really know what we need or why.

regards, tom lane