| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: NLS on MSVC strikes back! |
| Date: | 2008-02-12 15:09:16 |
| Message-ID: | 25841.1202828956@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On Nov 24 2006 this was committed dor src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c:
> r 1.114: Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.
> A few hours later it was supposedly reverted: r 1.115: Revert (too late
> in beta): Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.
> Apparently this was never returned to (it should probably have been put
> on the patches hold queue).
to_char's month/day name localization is implemented with gettext() not
strftime(), which is why it depends on LC_MESSAGES not LC_TIME. I seem
to recall that we didn't like the side-effects of the patch you are
mentioning, and so it ended up being rejected outright.
regards, tom lane
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