Re: PRI?64 vs Visual Studio (2022)

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> On 15.12.25 08:01, Tom Lane wrote:
> > So their gettext handles PRIu64 and PRIu32 and nothing else.
> >
> > What to do now? I could revert 8c498479d and followups, but
> > I sure don't want to. A stopgap measure to make the farm look
> > green would be to add a variant expected-file that accepts
> > this output, but yech. Thoughts?
>
> I think that means that that gettext implementation is not currently
> supportable. So either we revert our PRI* use except those two
> (unlikely), or those buildfarm members should disable NLS.

Yeah. My goal in mentioning the problem back when it was just a
problem in theory (we had no test, the Alpine packages disable nls
(perhaps it used to be *more* broken, if they did that before we used
PRI?)) was to try to see if someone closer to these musl distros
wanted to have a crack at fixing it, since it looks pretty close to
being usable. But now that it's a problem in practice, it's hard to
disagree with Peter's take. It could be reenabled any time it works
enough to pass the test.