Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator@apartia.ch> writes:
>> IMPORTANT: changing the backend's locale on-the-fly is an EXTREMELY
>> DANGEROUS thing to do, and I strongly recommend that you find another
>> way to solve your problem.
> The "problem" I am trying to solve is to send e-mail notifications to
> auction bidders in their own language with the proper number formatting,
> etc. From what you are saying I'll probably have to move these
> notifications to the mod_perl layer of the application.
Well, you could fork a subprocess to issue the mail and change locale
only once you're safely inside the subprocess.
regards, tom lane
