| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Relocatable locale |
| Date: | 2004-05-27 03:26:11 |
| Message-ID: | 200405270326.i4R3QBP15180@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I think the best we can do is putenv() for our apps, and document the
> > variable for other apps.
>
> Document what? How will another app find libpq's locale file?
> AFAICS *it can't*. Documenting a useless variable is not a solution.
I figured our apps could use putenv to set the locale directory, and
users of other apps could set the environment variable before running
the app.
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