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From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: initdb --no-locale=C doesn't work as specified when the environment is not C
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:56:11 +0900 (JST)
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At Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:16:03 -0500, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote in 
> Kyotaro Horiguchi <[email protected]> writes:
> > It seems somewhat intentional that only lc_messages references the
> > environment at boot time. On the other hand, previously, in the
> > absence of a specified locale, initdb would embed the environmental
> > value in the configuration file, as it seems to be documented. Given
> > that initdb is always used for cluster creation, it's unlikey that
> > systems depend on this boot-time default for their operation.
> 
> Yeah, after further reflection there doesn't seem to be a lot of value
> in leaving these entries commented-out, even in the cases where that's
> technically correct.  Let's just go back to the old behavior of always
> uncommenting them; that stood for years without complaints.  So I
> committed your latest patch as-is.

I'm glad you understand. Thank you for commiting.

> > By the way, the lines around lc_* in the sample file seem to have
> > somewhat inconsistent indentations. Wouldnt' it be preferable to fix
> > this? (The attached doesn't that.)
> 
> They look all right if you assume the tab width is 8, which seems to
> be what is used elsewhere in the file.  I think there's been some
> prior discussion about whether to ban use of tabs at all in these
> sample files, so as to reduce confusion about how wide the tabs are.
> But I'm not touching that question today.

Ah, I see, I understood.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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