| From: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug |
| Date: | 2002-05-21 16:31:14 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0205211229530.22392-100000@halden.devel.redhat.com |
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:04 am, Manuel Sugawara wrote:
> > I see. This behavior is consistent with the fact that mktime is
> > supposed to return -1 on error, but then is broken in every other Unix
> > implementation that I know.
>
> > Any other workaround than downgrade or install FreeBSD?
>
> Complain to Red Hat. Loudly. However, as this is a glibc change, other
> distributors are very likely to fold in this change sooner rather than
> later.
Relying on nonstandardized/nondocumented behaviour is a program bug, not a
glibc bug. PostgreSQL needs fixing. Since we ship both, we're looking at
it, but glibc is not the component with a problem.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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