Hi, On 2024-12-17 12:44:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2024-11-12 11:38:11 +0300, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote: > >> It was because initdb was failing on NetBSD when the LANG and LC_ALL > >> is not set to C. I rephrased the comment and moved this under NetBSD > >> task. > > > Do you happen to have a reference to the failure? The environment > > variables + > > the exact error message would be good. Kinda feels like that shouldn't > > happen with a default netbsd install. > > On mamba's host (pretty vanilla NetBSD 10.0): > > $ env | grep ^L > LOGNAME=tgl > $ LANG=C initdb > ... works fine ... > $ rm -rf $PGDATA > $ locale -a | grep en_US > en_US.ISO8859-1 > en_US.ISO8859-15 > en_US.US-ASCII > en_US.UTF-8 > $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 initdb > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "tgl". > This user must also own the server process. > > initdb: error: invalid locale settings; check LANG and LC_* environment > variables > > > I seem to recall noticing this when I was setting up mamba, but > I didn't feel like pursuing it so I just set the animal to test > only C locale.
Heh, I guess that's good enough for CI then too :) It'd be helpful if the error message ought to at least include the category being tested, perhaps it's just one category failing or such? Greetings, Andres Freund
