Thanks, Tom. Is there any suggestion on how to track all the conversations in one thread? Seems like all our previous
discussionare in different mail thread. It is not easy to track. 😊
Regards!
Haifang
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2024 3:55 PM
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Haifang Wang (Centific Technologies Inc) <v-haiwang@microsoft.com>; Rahul Pandey <pandeyrah@microsoft.com>; Vishwa
Deepak<Vishwa.Deepak@microsoft.com>; Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>; Amy Wishnousky <amyw@microsoft.com>;
pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org;Shweta Gulati <gulatishweta@microsoft.com>; Ashish Nawal <nawalashish@microsoft.com>;
MagnusHagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Windows Application Issues | PostgreSQL | REF # 48475607
Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> One open question is whether we should ship a translation file
> ourselves. I have heard two opinions: Tom Lane proposed in this
> thread that there should be no file initially, we let the user figure
> out what to put in there. Magnus Hagander proposed at the pgconf.dev
> conference last week that we should ideally ship a complete
> translation file and maintain it over time, and it should be installed
> not in pgdata but rather in the install directory.
FWIW, I'm kind of down on the latter approach, because I don't think it'll move the needle very far. Based on track
recordso far, there's no chance that we will be aware of a Microsoft locale renaming before it starts breaking users'
databases. Therefore, "edit the translation file" is going to have to be a documented process in any case, because
affectedusers are not going to want to wait around for our next release for a fix. Also, if people do have to do that,
itdoesn't seem like a great idea to tell them to modify an installed file rather than a cluster-local configuration
file. What if they do a minor version update but the minor version doesn't (yet) contain the fix?
Admittedly, the installed-file approach could make it more transparent for people who'd done a PG minor update before
therelevant Windows update. I'm not sure how large that set of people will be, though.
regards, tom lane
