Re: increase message string buffer size of watch command of psql

I wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Ioseph Kim <pgsql-kr(at)postgresql(dot)kr> wrote:
>>> Increase size of this title, please.
>>> 50 bytes is so small for multi language.
>>> And. I suggest that date string might be local language,
>>> or current_timestamp string.

>> This was already changed in commit dea2b5960.

> Well, we did part of that, but it's still using asctime(). Should we
> change that to strftime(..."%c"...) to be less English-centric?
> (The result seems to be the same in C locale. pg_controldata has done
> it that way for a long time, with few complaints.) If we want to do so,
> now would be the time, since 9.6 already whacked around the format
> of \watch output.

I take it from the vast silence that nobody particularly cares one way
or the other. On reflection I think that this would be a good change
to make, so I'll go do so unless I hear complaints soon.

regards, tom lane