Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704)

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> You're just putting the hard decision onto packagers, who have no more
>> knowledge than you do about what their users want, and (probably)
>> considerably less understanding of the benefits/risks of some new
>> configure option they happen to notice.

> Which is exactly why we have two types of RPMS, --integer-datetimes and
> not.

Maybe Devrim is doing that, but nobody else is.  Debian went for
--integer-datetimes years ago, Red Hat stuck with floats.  Nobody
is going to go to the trouble of maintaining two sets of RPMs, even
assuming they notice there's a choice.
        regards, tom lane