Re: initdb.exe changes --locale option

No.. what I mean to say is that the output from getlocales is same in 9.1
and 9.2. (I checked the installation logs). It's initdb in 9.2 that is not
accepting the same output. So, it has nothing to with the VC++ runtimes.

PG9.1:
--
c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1>bin\initdb.exe" --locale="English, New
Zealand" -D "c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\data2"
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "edb".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale English, New Zealand.
<-- OKAY
--

PG9.2:
--
c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2>bin\initdb.exe --locale="English, New
Zealand" -D "c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\data2"
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "edb".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "English_United
States.1252 <--NOT OKAY
--

Now, on 9.2, if we replace "," with "_" from the locale name, then it
works fine:
c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2>bin\initdb.exe" --locale="English_New
Zealand" -D "c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\data"
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "edb".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "English_New
Zealand.1252". <-- OKAY
--

So, actually it's initdb that has undergone change. Fix in
initdbcluster.vbs so that the locale name is passed with "_" to initdb.exe,
is just a workaround from installer.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

>
>
> On Friday, September 14, 2012, Sandeep Thakkar wrote:
>
>> I think everything is covered by Mike here. "getlocales.exe" returns the
>> list of locales in the format "Language, Country" for most of them. and
>> this worked fine on 9.1, but does not work on 9.2. And if we are looking
>> for a workaround in installer, then as Mike suggested, we should handle it
>> in initcluster.vbs. (for 9.2.0)
>>
>
> Hmm, thanks Sandeep. So I believe the only thing that changed in this area
> between 9.1 and 9.2 is that we moved from VC++ 2008 to 2010. Can you
> confirm that's the only difference please, and that the output from
> getlocales does differ between versions when run on the same box?
>
> If that's the case, we can do the tweaking of the names there, but only
> when using the newer compiler, if we cannot find a better fix.
>
>
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