In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) transmitted: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: >> > Joachim Wieland wrote: >> >> Can someone please explain why in include/utils/datetime.h (struct >> >> datetkn) >> >> there is a check for _AIX that either initializes a char* pointer or a >> >> char >> >> array? >> >> > Wow, that is strange. We could remove it for 8.2 and see how testing goes. >> >> It looks like a workaround for some ancient compiler problem. [ digs >> for awhile... ] Very ancient: we inherited that hack from Berkeley, see >> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/Attic/nabstime.h >> >> I bet we can remove it. > > OK, removed. Let's see if we get failure feedback.
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