On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 07:20:04PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On 12/28/2014 04:58 PM, Noah Misch wrote: > >The gettext maintainer was open to implementing the setlocale_native_forked() > >technique in gettext, though the last visible progress was in October. In any > >event, PostgreSQL builds will see older gettext for several years. If > >setlocale-darwin-fork-v1.patch is not wanted, I suggest making the postmaster > >check during startup whether it has become multithreaded. If multithreaded: > > > > FATAL: postmaster became multithreaded during startup > > HINT: Set the LC_ALL environment variable to a valid locale.
> >I would like to go ahead and commit setlocale-main-harden-v1.patch, which is a > >good thing to have regardless of what happens with gettext. > > > > I'm OK with this, but on its own it won't fix orangutan's problems, will it?
Right; setlocale-main-harden-v1.patch fixes a bug not affecting orangutan at all. None of the above will make orangutan turn green. Checking multithreading during startup would merely let it fail cleanly.
