Re: Relocatable locale - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Relocatable locale
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Msg-id 200405270326.i4R3QBP15180@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Relocatable locale  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I think the best we can do is putenv() for our apps, and document the
> > variable for other apps.
>
> Document what?  How will another app find libpq's locale file?
> AFAICS *it can't*.  Documenting a useless variable is not a solution.

I figured our apps could use putenv to set the locale directory, and
users of other apps could set the environment variable before running
the app.

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