Re: Getting the red out (of the buildfarm)

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> OK, the reason I couldn't reproduce this for the life of me is that I
> had PGCLIENTENCODING=UTF8 in the environment of the server(!). Once I
> unset that, I could reproduce the problem. This could be made a bit
> more well-defined if we ran pg_regress with --multibyte=something,
> although that is then liable to fail in encodings that don't have an
> equivalent of \u0080. Some with your suggestion above: It will only
> work for some encodings.

I'm back to wondering why we need a regression test for this at all.
Wouldn't it be just as useful to be testing a character code that
is well-defined everywhere? Or just drop this test altogether?
It's already got way too many expected files for my taste.

regards, tom lane