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From Hiroshi Saito
Subject Re: The question of LOCALE at the time of a regression test.
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In response to The question of LOCALE at the time of a regression test.  ("Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito@guitar.ocn.ne.jp>)
Responses Re: The question of LOCALE at the time of a regression test.  (Jeremy Drake <pgsql@jdrake.com>)
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Hi Tom-san.

From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>


> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Since we rely on the OS to supply locale settings, getting a reliable 
>> set of regression tests that depended on the locale would be close to 
>> impossible. We really have to run the regression tests under --no-locale.
> 
> This is quite untrue; we have variant regression files that exist
> specifically to support running the tests under various popular locales.
> As Hiroshi-san points out, --no-locale isn't even the default in the
> Unix makefile.
> 
> Perhaps the Windows locales are different enough that what we have
> doesn't cover them?

Um, I was flipped off by you

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00070.php

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