On May 7, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, there's another issue that comes to mind here: since we are
> relying on platform-dependent locale names, including those in the
> dump
> is going to pose a severe problem for porting dumps across platforms
> (where "different platform" could even mean "different libc release").
> We're already at risk with respect to dumps from 8.4, even without the
> above-proposed change.
>
> I am not sure what we can do about this. Ideas?
Abandon platform-dependent locales?
Kidding! (Sort of.)
Best,
David