| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "PostgreSQL-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] win32 crash in initdb |
| Date: | 2004-07-30 08:13:33 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BF85@algol.sollentuna.se |
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> >> The crash people are getting in initdb is due to the 1.19
> revision to
> >> pgtz.c. Not sure why yet...looking into it...
> >
> >Unfortunate behavior when probing pre-1970 dates, maybe?
>
>
> Indeed that was the problem. Attached patch fixes the issue
> here and for Merlin :-)
>
> I've also figured out why it always worked for me. When in
> the western europe timezone, the bug does not show up
> (probably because we don't probe those dates). When I set my
> system to US Eastern, it broke.
Here we go again with a more correct patch, per Toms comments and hints
off-list.
//Magnus
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| tzfix.patch | application/octet-stream | 1.2 KB |
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