Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Another attempt at fixing Windows Norwegian locale.

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
> On 02/01/2015 04:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm. My understanding of the situation was that the "norwegian-bokmal"
>> solution worked on some Windows versions but not others.

> I'm no Windows expert, but believe that it's not the Windows version
> you're running on that matters, but the CRT library used when building
> the binaries.

I see. Still, it's not too hard to credit that one might switch to a new
set of binaries built with a different library version.

>> So it seems like the risk for 9.4 users is that they installed on a
>> version where "norwegian-bokmal" works and then someday want to
>> migrate the database to one where it doesn't. Maybe we don't need to
>> address that, but I'm strongly tempted to keep the same instructions
>> but phrase them as "change norwegian-bokmal to Norwegian_Norway if
>> it's there".

> That's fine by me, that advice is correct, although I believe that you
> only encounter that situation if you had built the binaries yourself
> with an older MSVC version.

OK, I'll make it so.

regards, tom lane