Re: Glibc2 (was Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL - the Linux of Databases...)

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Thomas A. Szybist" <szybist@boxhill.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
Date: 1998-03-04T15:48:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Just thought you'd like another data point.  I just installed Cristian's
> glibc2-2.0.7 packages.  Like Thomas, I still get:
>
>         postgres=> select '1 min'::timespan;
>         ?column?
>         ------------
>         @ 60.00 secs
>         (1 row)
>
> Without recompiling.  With recompiling, I get:
>
>         postgres=> select '1 min'::timespan;
>         ?column?
>         --------
>         @ 1 min
>         (1 row)
>
> I'm using gcc 2.7.2.3 -O2.

Well, this narrows it down a lot! Wonder why it requires a recompile?? afaik there
isn't any static library linking involved...

                                                    - Tom