Re: The question of LOCALE at the time of a regression test.

From: "Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito(at)guitar(dot)ocn(dot)ne(dot)jp>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: The question of LOCALE at the time of a regression test.
Date: 2008-02-08 16:23:45
Message-ID: 025e01c86a6e$fa554c20$0301a8c0@HP22720319231
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Hi Tom-san.

From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Since we rely on the OS to supply locale settings, getting a reliable
>> set of regression tests that depended on the locale would be close to
>> impossible. We really have to run the regression tests under --no-locale.
>
> This is quite untrue; we have variant regression files that exist
> specifically to support running the tests under various popular locales.
> As Hiroshi-san points out, --no-locale isn't even the default in the
> Unix makefile.
>
> Perhaps the Windows locales are different enough that what we have
> doesn't cover them?

Um, I was flipped off by you

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00070.php

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