pgsql: Make initdb throw error for bad locale values. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Make initdb throw error for bad locale values.
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Msg-id E1WkbSh-0000Pw-IZ@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Make initdb throw error for bad locale values.

Historically we've printed a complaint for a bad locale setting, but then
fallen back to the environment default.  Per discussion, this is not such
a great idea, because rectifying an erroneous locale choice post-initdb
(perhaps long after data has been loaded) could be enormously expensive.
Better to complain and give the user a chance to double-check things.

The behavior was particularly bad if the bad setting came from environment
variables rather than a bogus command-line switch: in that case not only
was there a fallback to C/SQL_ASCII, but the printed complaint was quite
unhelpful.  It's hard to be entirely sure what variables setlocale looked
at, but we can at least give a hint where the problem might be.

Per a complaint from Tomas Vondra.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/31a263237fa3eb6f36d58335fbdb82bab3136db3

Modified Files
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src/bin/initdb/initdb.c |   86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)


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