Re: CVS compile failure

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> I am seeing a compile failure in current CVS from strptime():
>>   ./backend/access/transam/xlog.c:    if (strptime(tok2, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm) == NULL)
>> BSD/OS does not have that function.
>
> Hmph.  I was wondering if that was really portable or not :-(.
> Any ideas about a quick-and-dirty replacement?
>
> Maybe we could call abstimein or something like that.  We just want to
> convert a human-readable string value to a time_t, and I can't say that
> I thought the strptime behavior was all that friendly anyway...

Under FreeBSD:

"     The strptime() function does not correctly handle multibyte characters in     the format argument"

Not sure how critical that is for what you are doing, mind you ...

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