Re: CVS compile failure

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> 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.
>
>> 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 ...
>
> Not at all, since in this call the format is the fixed constant
> "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S".  But it's odd that your BSD variant has strptime()
> where Bruce's does not.

Bruce, how old is your system? :)  If I'm reading the man page right, it 
was introduced on FreeBSD in Jan of '03 ...

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