From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales |
Date: | 2014-05-14 14:26:49 |
Message-ID: | 53737D29.10008@vmware.com |
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On 05/14/2014 05:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
>> On 05/14/2014 12:07 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Well, all we know is that we asked setlocale for the default locale from
>>> the environment and it failed. We don't really know which variable(s)
>>> it looked at.
>
>> Printing the values of the environment variables sounds complicated, but
>> I think a generic hint along these lines would be good:
>
>> initdb: environment locale settings are invalid
>> HINT: This usually means that the LANG, LC_ALL or LC_* environment
>> variable has an invalid value.
>
> Hm. Keep in mind this is not backend code so we don't have a HINT
> formalism. How about
>
> initdb: invalid locale settings; check LANG and LC_* environment variables
Works for me. I note that we have used the HINT: wording in pg_ctl, too:
pg_ctl: server does not shut down
HINT: The "-m fast" option immediately disconnects sessions rather than
waiting for session-initiated disconnection.
That's the only client program that does that, though, so perhaps we
want to reconsider that in pg_ctl.
> Anyway, given that we seem to have consensus on doing this (modulo
> exact text of the error message), the next question is whether we
> want to change this only in HEAD, or consider it a back-patchable
> bug fix. I lean to the former but can see that there's some
> argument for the latter.
HEAD-only. There might be scripts out there that do initdb with invalid
LANG. They might be perfectly happy with getting the C locale, and
backpatching this would make them unhappy.
- Heikki
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