Re: Fix for pg_upgrade's forcing pg_controldata into English

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mi sep 01 16:35:18 -0400 2010:
> >> I have implemented your suggestion of setting LANG, LANGUAGE, and
> >> LC_MESSAGES based on code in pg_regress.c; that is the only place I see
> >> where we force English, and it certainly has received more testing.
>
> > I think a real long-term solution is to have a machine-readable format
> > for pg_controldata, perhaps something very simple like
>
> > $ pg_controldata --machine
> > PGCONTROL_VERSION_NUMBER=903
> > CATALOG_VERSION_NUMBER=201008051
> > DATABASE_SYSIDENTIFIER=5504177303240039672
> > etc
>
> > This wouldn't be subject to translation and thus much easier to process.
>
> +1. pg_controldata was never written with the idea that its output
> would be read by programs. If we're going to start doing that, we
> should provide an output format that's suitable, not try to work around
> it in the callers.
>
> However, that's something for 9.1 and beyond. Bruce's immediate problem
> is what to do in pg_upgrade in 9.0, and there I concur that he should
> duplicate what pg_regress is doing.

OK, here is a patch that sets all the variables that pg_regress.c sets.

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