May 14, 2018
4:21 p.m.
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
I doubt we'd do better with a different hash.
We can do a bit better; the attached patches uses a hash that shrinks the size of tzdata.zi by about 0.5% compared to the method used in 2018e. This hash should also avoid needless churn during updates.
Looks nice --- obviously, this is more work than what I did, but it seems sensible, and not likely to be an undue pain to maintain. I think 0004 is a bit of a kluge though ... regards, tom lane