From: | John McKown <john(dot)archie(dot)mckown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Haifang Wang (Centific Technologies Inc)" <v-haiwang(at)microsoft(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Windows Application Issues | PostgreSQL | REF # 48475607 |
Date: | 2024-05-13 23:09:52 |
Message-ID: | CAAJSdjiR_kP3-YDfUyKv0Yruv1K2Rn0LPgoyabagrJauJDCNTg@mail.gmail.com |
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Just curious. Why a plain text file rather than a system table?
On Mon, May 13, 2024, 18:07 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Longer term I'm looking for something better than that though, because
> > it doesn't address the root cause (need for stable identifiers), and
> > will only ever allow us to fix problems with the old unstable names
> > *after* users complain that their database is dead, 3-6 months after
> > in fact due to release cycles. I think a dynamic mapping file might
> > be better? (Maybe win32locale.c should be able to read that kludge
> > table from a file that you can give it with an environment variable,
> > or something like that?)
>
> +1 for the long-term solution being more-stable locale identifiers.
> However, we should try to build something that will let users get
> out of these situations with the existing identifiers, so I like
> your idea of a plain-text mapping file for Windows locale names.
> I don't think an environment variable is necessary; just define
> a fixed name "$PGDATA/locale_map.txt" or such. If that file
> exists, just read it and map the pg_database field values with it.
>
> Maybe this shouldn't even be Windows-specific? Are there any
> cases where it'd save people's bacon on other platforms?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>
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