Re: locale -a missing on Alpine Linux?

On 16.11.22 20:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt(at)burggraben(dot)net> writes:
>> ## Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com):
>>> First of all, is this a standard installation of this OS, or is perhaps
>>> something incomplete, broken, or unusual about the current OS installation?
>
>> Alpine uses musl libc, on which you need package musl-locales to get
>> a /usr/bin/locale.
>> https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/musl-locales
>
> Ah. And that also shows that if you didn't install that package,
> you don't have any locales either, except presumably C/POSIX.
>
> So probably we should treat failure of the locale command as okay
> and just press on with no non-built-in locales.

That's basically what we had before, so I have just reverted that part
of my original patch.