Re: USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES breaks regression tests in 7.1.2?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Justin Clift <aa2@bigpond.net.au>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-07T14:25:07Z
Lists: pgsql-general
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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