Re: New "-b slim" option in 2019b zic: should we turn that on?

On 7/17/19 6:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Despite the marginal payoff, I'm strongly tempted to enable this
> switch.  The only reason I can think of not to do it is if somebody
> is using a Postgres installation's share/timezone tree as tzdata
> for some other program with not-up-to-date timezone library code.
> But who would that be?
>
> A possible compromise is to turn it on only in HEAD, though I'd
> rather keep all the branches working the same as far as the
> timezone code goes.
>


I've just run into an issue with this (commit a1207910968). The makefile
now assumes that zic has this switch. But I was attempting to get around
an issue on msys2 by using its zic, (ZIC=/usr/bin/zic configure ...). It
crashes on the floor because it doesn't know about "-b slim". I think we
probably need a way to turn this off.


cheers

andrew

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