Re: pgsql-server: Still another try at matching system

Excellent!

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
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> Still another try at matching system timezone nicely.  On non-Windows
> machines, break tie scores by preferring shorter zone names over longer;
> for names of equal length, prefer the alphabetically first name.  This
> yields for example 'EST5EDT' not 'America/New_York' for US eastern time.
> On Windows, abandon the whole concept of inspecting the detailed behavior
> of the system TZ library, because it doesn't bear inspection :-(.  Instead
> use a hardwired mapping table to select our zone name based on the
> result of strftime %Z output.  Windows code from Magnus Hagander.
>
> Modified Files:
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>     pgsql-server/src/timezone:
>         pgtz.c (r1.20 -> r1.21)
>         (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/timezone/pgtz.c.diff?r1=1.20&r2=1.21)
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