pgsql: Restore initdb's old behavior of always setting the lc_xxx GUCs.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Restore initdb's old behavior of always setting the lc_xxx GUCs.
Date: 2024-01-10 23:09:39
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Restore initdb's old behavior of always setting the lc_xxx GUCs.

In commit 3e51b278d I (tgl) caused initdb to leave lc_messages and
other lc_xxx GUCs commented-out in the installed postgresql.conf file
if they were going to be set to 'C'. This was a hack for cosmetic
purposes, and it was buggy because lc_messages' wired-in default is
not 'C' but '' (empty string). That led to --no-locale not having
the expected effect, since the postmaster would then obtain
lc_messages from its startup environment.

Let's just revert to the prior behavior of always de-commenting the
lc_xxx entries; the argument for changing that longstanding behavior
was weak in the first place.

Also, fix postgresql.conf.sample's erroneous claim that the default
value of lc_messages is 'C'. I suspect that was what misled me into
making this mistake in the first place.

Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch to v16 where
the problem was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231122.162700.1995154567625541112.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3d185cfc09c32b1f250adfbb62c0c7a3f96c5af2

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 +-
src/bin/initdb/initdb.c | 24 ++++++++----------------
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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