Re: Anybody care about having the verbose form of the tzdata files?

2017-11-21 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Paquier writes: >> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:38, Tom Lane wrote: Anybody here actually care about reading the zone data files? >> Perhaps I do. If this set of files gets remo

Re: Anybody care about having the verbose form of the tzdata files?

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier writes: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:38, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Anybody here actually care about reading the zone data files? >> I doubt there is anyone who cares about that who isn’t already consuming the >> upstream data. >

Re: Anybody care about having the verbose form of the tzdata files?

2017-11-21 Thread Michael Paquier
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:38, Tom Lane wrote: >> Anybody here actually care about reading the zone data files? > > I doubt there is anyone who cares about that who isn’t already consuming the > upstream data. Perhaps I do. If this set of f

Re: Anybody care about having the verbose form of the tzdata files?

2017-11-21 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:38, Tom Lane wrote: > So I'm wondering if we should replace src/timezone/data/* with > tzdata.zi, in the name of reducing the size of our tarballs. +1 > Anybody here actually care about reading the zone data files? I doubt there is anyone who cares about that who isn’t

Anybody care about having the verbose form of the tzdata files?

2017-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
Traditionally, src/timezone/data/ contains the source files of the IANA timezone database. That currently amounts to just under 700KB, and it's growing all the time, mostly because they keep what amounts to their entire commit log in the comments :-( IANA have recently started distributing an abb