Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 1/21/17 12:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I have to question the decision to make "no locales" a hard error.
>> What's the point of that? In fact, should we even be bothering with
>> a warning, considering how often initdb runs unattended these days?
> Hmm, it was a warning in initdb, so making it an error now is probably a
> mistake. We should change it back to a warning at least.
I'd drop it altogether I think ... it was useful debug back in the day
but now I doubt it is worth much.
> Also, if we add ICU initialization to this, then it's not clear how we
> would report if one provider provided zero locales but another did
> provide some.
Would it help to redefine the function as returning the number of locale
entries it successfully added?
regards, tom lane
