On 05/14/2014 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> As far as Windows goes, we could certainly use #ifdef WIN32 to print
>> some different text, if anyone can write down what it should be.
> Some googling suggests that on Windows, setlocale pays no attention
> to environment variables but gets a value that the user can set via
> the Control Panel.
Indeed. There is a comment in plperl.c about that, because we have to
deal with it in a somewhat ugly fashion.
> This probably means that an invalid setting is
> impossible, or at least that we have no clear idea how the user could
> screw it up. So I'm thinking we do not need a Windows-specific
> phrasing of the message, until such time as we see evidence of how
> you could provoke this case on Windows.
>
>
Right. I'd just leave Windows out of it for now.
cheers
andrew
