Re: Does EXEC_BACKEND mode still need to propagate setlocale settings?

Tom Lane wrote:
> The recent bug report about CheckMyDatabase() failing to use
> pg_perm_setlocale() led me to look for other uses of setlocale() that
> might be wrong. I found two fishy calls in restore_backend_variables().

I just did the exact same thing but you beat me..

> I am thinking though that the correct fix is to delete them and get
> rid of the overhead of transmitting the postmaster's setlocale settings
> to child processes this way. A regular backend is going to do
> CheckMyDatabase momentarily, and in any case it seems to me that the
> postmaster hasn't bothered to change these values off the system defaults
> and so there is no need to do anything special to inherit its values.

Agreed. In EXEC_BACKEND case, main() sets them to the same system
defaults before restore_backend_variables() is called.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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