Re: USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES breaks regression tests in 7.1.2?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES breaks regression tests in 7.1.2?
Date: 2001-06-07 14:25:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0106071623030.757-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> I am inclined to think that treating USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES as a compile
> time option was the wrong idea. It should be a runtime (GUC) option;
> then it can be switched off to run the regress tests, regardless of
> whether a particular installation keeps it on by default.

Right. I was in fact inclined to do this for 7.1, but the problem is that
the time zone lookup is driven by a static table, so it would probably
require a bit of uglification to make this work. But it's surely
feasible.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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