Re: Timezone matching script (win32)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> >> This script should probably live in CVS, and be run when Microsoft
>> >> releases new timezone data. Where should I put it - src/timezone or
>> >> somewhere in src/tools? (it does read pgtz.c in the current directory,
>> >> but it doesn't actually edit the file - just outputs on stdout a list
>> >> of changes to be made to the file manually)
>>
>> > I think it should live in src/tools and be mentioned in
>> > src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
>>
>> +1 for src/tools/, but the documentation note should probably be in
>> src/timezone/README.  This task isn't especially coupled to release
>> times (at least not *our* release times).  And it's definitely not
>> likely to happen at the times anyone would be consulting
>> RELEASE_CHANGES, because none of the release leadup work gets done
>> on Windows machines.
>
> True, but if there's a www.microsoft.com URL that could be checked for
> timezone updates, perhaps we don't need a Windows machine.  In any case,

Funny guy. There isn't, of course.

> perhaps whoever does the release work can *ask* someone else to provide
> the Windows TZ patch.

Yeah, that's what we'll need done.

How about we put it in RELEASE_CHANGES for major releases with
something like "if a major windows update has been released, run ...
"?

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