Re: broken regress tests on fedora 36

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: broken regress tests on fedora 36
Date: 2022-06-09 15:25:14
Message-ID: 2029652.1654788314@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Shouldn't we reset the locale setting (LC_NUMERIC?) to a known value?
> We clearly already do that for other categories, or it wouldn't say "Time:".

pg_regress.c and Utils.pm force LC_MESSAGES to C, explaining

* Set translation-related settings to English; otherwise psql will
* produce translated messages and produce diffs.

While that seems clearly necessary, I'm inclined to think that we
should not mess with the user's LC_XXX environment more than we
absolutely must. pg_regress only resets the rest of that if you
say --no-locale, an option the TAP infrastructure lacks.

In short, I think the committed fix is better than this proposal.

regards, tom lane

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