Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Rename pg_regress option --multibyte to --encoding

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Rename pg_regress option --multibyte to --encoding
Date: 2011-04-15 20:36:00
Message-ID: 1302899760.3774.22.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:28 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Yeah, what is the point of this?:
>
> -# Adjust REGRESS_OPTS because we need a UTF8 database
> -REGRESS_OPTS = --dbname=$(CONTRIB_TESTDB) --multibyte=UTF8 --no-locale
> +# We need a UTF8 database +ENCODING = UTF8 +NO_LOCALE = 1
>
>
> Wouldn't it have worked just to change the way we spelled the option
> name in the REGRESS_OPTS line?

It would have, but this way you have the same uniform interface
everywhere. For example, you can easily override the encoding that that
test prescribes.

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