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 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 Unix world.
IIRC oracle uses NLS_LANG and not any LC_* (even on unix ;) it is set to smth like NLS_LANG=ESTONIAN_ESTONIA.WE8ISO8859P15 > We ought to think twice about whether that's really a good idea. > > > Note that you get the same kind of command line options as in initdb: > > --lc-numeric, --locale, etc. You can also run SHOW lc_numeric to see > > what's going on. > > Probably you thought of this already: please also support SHOW for the > initdb-time variables (lc_collate, etc), so that one can find out the > active locale settings without having to resort to > contrib/pg_controldata. ------------ Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
