Re: foreign_data test fails with non-C locale

Guillaume Smet wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> However, the
>> de facto policy is that we try to keep them passing in locales that
>> are used by any of the regular developers. I think it would be useful
>> to have buildfarm members testing in a few common locales.
>>
>
> If you define common locales, I can set up as many new animals as
> needed to cover the locales needed for any branch we'd like to test.
>
> Perhaps we should add a parameter to the buildfarm config file so that
> the buildfarm script can check the locale is accepted and set it
> directly. Considering that we won't have the locale information in the
> animal description, it's a good way to have it in the report.
>
>
>

Sure, we can easily have buildfarm's initdb step set any locale (and
encoding, for that matter) we like. That's a simple change.

cheers

andrew