Re: [GENERAL] Installin Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Installin Postgres
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0305071716110.2565-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Installin Postgres  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Installin Postgres  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> What we are seeing is that on several platforms, the default locale
> settings are just plain broken --- ie, setlocale() barfs on the locale
> value that the system environment provides.  There was discussion before
> about this, but IIRC we concluded that initdb could not easily detect
> the problem.

It could be detected if we rewrote parts of initdb in C.  I was sort of
hoping that that would come out of the Windows port.  If not, then I can
write a small helper program that checks the locale during initdb.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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