Re: buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales
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Msg-id ea20ae657a4e7047e8d5a5079bf696c0.squirrel@sq.gransy.com
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In response to Re: buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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On 14 Květen 2014, 16:26, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 05:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Anyway, given that we seem to have consensus on doing this (modulo
>> exact text of the error message), the next question is whether we
>> want to change this only in HEAD, or consider it a back-patchable
>> bug fix.  I lean to the former but can see that there's some
>> argument for the latter.
>
> HEAD-only. There might be scripts out there that do initdb with invalid
> LANG. They might be perfectly happy with getting the C locale, and
> backpatching this would make them unhappy.

Not sure if 'happy with broken config' is the right argument here, but it
certainly is a behaviour change / not a bugfix, so +1 for HEAD-only from
me too.

Tomas




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