On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:20:15AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a reason for this? > > Two arguments I can recall: > > (1) Having log messages emitted in a language that the DBA can't read > would be a useful tactic for a Bad Guy trying to cover his tracks. > > (2) Setting lc_messages to a value incompatible with the database > encoding would be likely to result in PANIC or worse. > > If we had more-robust locale support, I could see separating lc_messages > into one setting for messages bound to the client and one for messages > bound to the log, and making the latter superuser only (or, more likely, > PGC_SIGHUP, because surely you'd want DB-wide consistency). But we > are nowhere near being able to do that.
Ok. That makes a lot of sense, unfortunately. Hopefully something we can get sometime in the future, then :-) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
