Re: [HACKERS] Rough sketch for locale by default

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > If I follow this correctly, the behavior would be that PG would not pay > attention to *any* LC_xxx environment variables? Although I agree with > that principle in the abstract, it bothers me that PG will be out of > step with every single other locale-using program in the Un

Re: [HACKERS] Rough sketch for locale by default

2002-03-28 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 19:26, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ good stuff snipped ] > > > ... Also, it prevents accidentally changing the locale when you > > (or someone else) fiddle with your environment variables. > > If I follow this correctly, the behavior

Re: [HACKERS] Rough sketch for locale by default

2002-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ good stuff snipped ] > ... Also, it prevents accidentally changing the locale when you > (or someone else) fiddle with your environment variables. If I follow this correctly, the behavior would be that PG would not pay attention to *any* LC_xxx en

[HACKERS] Rough sketch for locale by default

2002-03-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I've mentioned a while ago that I wanted to make the --enable-locale switch the default (and remove the switch), and make the choice of locale-awareness a run-time choice. Here is how that might work. I've already explained how I plan to get around the performance problems, so this will just focu