Re: [GENERAL] Installin Postgres

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <mariocaspari(at)salo-ag(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Installin Postgres
Date: 2003-05-07 18:42:43
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0305071716110.2565-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> What we are seeing is that on several platforms, the default locale
> settings are just plain broken --- ie, setlocale() barfs on the locale
> value that the system environment provides. There was discussion before
> about this, but IIRC we concluded that initdb could not easily detect
> the problem.

It could be detected if we rewrote parts of initdb in C. I was sort of
hoping that that would come out of the Windows port. If not, then I can
write a small helper program that checks the locale during initdb.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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