Re: Relocatable locale

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane said:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> I think the best we can do is putenv() for our apps, and document the
> >> variable for other apps.
> >
> > Document what? How will another app find libpq's locale file?
> > AFAICS *it can't*. Documenting a useless variable is not a solution.
> >
>
> You wouldn't expect the environment var to be set by an app in those
> cases - it would be set by a sysadmin or an installer on a system-wide
> basis when pg is installed in other than the hardcoded location. At least,
> that's the way I understood Bruce's suggestion.

Right.

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