From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Fix for pg_upgrade's forcing pg_controldata into English |
Date: | 2010-09-01 22:39:39 |
Message-ID: | 201009012239.o81MddW21742@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mi sep 01 16:35:18 -0400 2010:
> >> I have implemented your suggestion of setting LANG, LANGUAGE, and
> >> LC_MESSAGES based on code in pg_regress.c; that is the only place I see
> >> where we force English, and it certainly has received more testing.
>
> > I think a real long-term solution is to have a machine-readable format
> > for pg_controldata, perhaps something very simple like
>
> > $ pg_controldata --machine
> > PGCONTROL_VERSION_NUMBER=903
> > CATALOG_VERSION_NUMBER=201008051
> > DATABASE_SYSIDENTIFIER=5504177303240039672
> > etc
>
> > This wouldn't be subject to translation and thus much easier to process.
>
> +1. pg_controldata was never written with the idea that its output
> would be read by programs. If we're going to start doing that, we
> should provide an output format that's suitable, not try to work around
> it in the callers.
>
> However, that's something for 9.1 and beyond. Bruce's immediate problem
> is what to do in pg_upgrade in 9.0, and there I concur that he should
> duplicate what pg_regress is doing.
OK, here is a patch that sets all the variables that pg_regress.c sets.
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