On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 01:52:49PM -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 07:20:04PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > On 12/28/2014 04:58 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> > >The gettext maintainer was open to implementing the
> > >setlocale_native_forked()
> > >technique in gettext, though the last visible progress was in October. In
> > >any
> > >event, PostgreSQL builds will see older gettext for several years. If
> > >setlocale-darwin-fork-v1.patch is not wanted, I suggest making the
> > >postmaster
> > >check during startup whether it has become multithreaded. If
> > >multithreaded:
> > >
> > > FATAL: postmaster became multithreaded during startup
> > > HINT: Set the LC_ALL environment variable to a valid locale.
>
> > >I would like to go ahead and commit setlocale-main-harden-v1.patch, which
> > >is a
> > >good thing to have regardless of what happens with gettext.
> > >
> >
> > I'm OK with this, but on its own it won't fix orangutan's problems, will it?
>
> Right; setlocale-main-harden-v1.patch fixes a bug not affecting orangutan at
> all. None of the above will make orangutan turn green. Checking
> multithreading during startup would merely let it fail cleanly.
OS X --enable-nls buildfarm members should run tests under LANG=C instead of
with locale environment variables unset (make check NO_LOCALE=1). I see two
ways to arrange that: (1) add a build-farm.conf option, or (2) have
pg_regress.c:initialize_environment() treat OS X like Windows. I mildly favor
(2); see attached, untested patch. Windows and OS X --enable-nls share the
characteristic that setlocale(LC_x, "") consults sources other than
environment variables. (I do wonder why commit 4a6fd46 used LANG=en instead
of LANG=C.) On the other hand, LANG=en has been inessential on Windows ever
since "pg_regress --no-locale" started to use "initdb --no-locale". While I
prefer to see the LANG= hack go away rather than proliferate, I can't cite a
practical reason to care.
Thanks,
nm
diff --git a/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c b/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
index e8c644b..e55835e 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
+++ b/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c
@@ -790,9 +790,16 @@ initialize_environment(void)
unsetenv("LC_NUMERIC");
unsetenv("LC_TIME");
unsetenv("LANG");
- /* On Windows the default locale cannot be English, so force it
*/
-#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
- putenv("LANG=en");
+ /*
+ * Most platforms have adopted the POSIX locale as their
+ * implementation-defined default locale. Exceptions include
native
+ * Windows, Darwin with --enable-nls, and Cygwin with
--enable-nls.
+ * (Use of --enable-nls matters because libintl replaces
setlocale().)
+ * Also, PostgreSQL does not support Darwin with locale
environment
+ * variables unset; see PostmasterMain().
+ */
+#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__darwin__)
+ putenv("LANG=C");
#endif
}
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