Re: Open 7.1 items

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >
> > > P O S T G R E S Q L
> > >
> > > 7 . 1 O P E N I T E M S
> > >
> > > Current at ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/open_items.
> >
> > Any possibility of putting my getlocale into contrib ?
> >
> > I agree that it should in fact be in the pg_locale.c but that would be a
> > feature and we don't add new features this late.
> >
> > OTOH it is helpful if users (specially those that use rpm's or other
> > packaged binaries) have an easy way to find out
> > what locale they happen to run in (as it often it just happens ;)
>
> Actually, I have something from Oliver Elphick called pg_controldata:

Could you send it to me so that I can find out how he gets the
LC_COLLATE
and LC_CTYPE from backend (assuming it tells backend locale not cients)
?

> $ pg_controldata
> Log file id: 0
> Log file segment: 5
> Last modified: Wed Feb 7 19:35:47 2001
> Database block size: 8192
> Blocks per segment of large relation: 131072
> Catalog version number: 200101061
> LC_COLLATE: en_GB
> LC_CTYPE: en_GB
> Log archive directory:
>
> This looks quite valuable. Do people want this in /contrib? How does
> this compare to your utility?

Mine is an external C funtion, so it can easily be used from any client.
And I intend to propose it into pg_locale.c ealy in 7.2 development.

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Hannu