Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc

Andreas Krennmair <netnews@synflood.at> writes:
> The first fix is that PostgreSQL relies on that, when reading the output
> of postgres -V, all the output can be read with a single read call (or
> whatever call is used, it comes down to read(2) in the end) when called
> from initdb.

Hmm.  This is a fair point.  Shouldn't pipe_read_line() loop until it's
detected EOF?  I'm willing to fix the Unix half of it but I dunno about
the Windows half.

> The other modifications in src/timezone/data/europe are a  quick fix
> because I got the error message "line too long" when trying to do a make
> install.

Can you say where that error message is coming from?  Because I'd say
that we should fix the limitation, not kluge the data files ...
        regards, tom lane