Re: a contrib function to query current locale values

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've written a small function that should go into contrib for 7.1
>
> As locale issues are quite tricky, being able to find out what locale
> backend thinks it is in is a good thing ;)

hmm, see you PG sources -- pg_locale.c file?

I mean that is not good lavish the sources with same code. If this is
really needful will better add your idea into this file and use
PGLC_current() instead add to sources again new setlocale() call.

The current backend (unfortunately) disable change locales on the fly
-- this means your function will returns always same result :-)

IMHO more nice will some function 'environment()' returns *all* backend
environment values (locales, debug mode ... etc) or command "SHOW LOCALE"
or something like this.

Karel