Re: regress test errors - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: regress test errors
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Msg-id 22454.985241668@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to regress test errors  (<mjbjr@beaudesign.com>)
List pgsql-general
<mjbjr@beaudesign.com> writes:
> Additional errors are similiar to:
>    expected:   !             |                456.000
>    result:     !             | $              456.000
>    the diff being the '$', which I hope to be inconsequential.

That indicates a locale problem --- the regress tests expect to run in C
locale.

The other errors you show could be results of being careless with the
postmaster's locale --- in 7.0 and before, it's critical that the
postmaster always be started with the same locale settings that initdb
saw.

            regards, tom lane

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