| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Relocatable locale |
| Date: | 2004-05-27 00:31:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200405270031.i4R0VDt03772@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I'm confused. Can you explain the problem more clearly, please? Do we
> > need to distinguish known apps with a known (relative) message
> > location, from unknown libpq clients?
>
> The problem boils down to the fact that libpq needs to find its data
> files (in this case locale data, but it could be anything), but it
> doesn't know its own location, so it can't use a relative path
> reference as has been proposed.
I am wondering if we should use environment variables, and have our apps
use putenv() to set it to the proper relative path.
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