On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:28 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Yeah, what is the point of this?:
>
> -# Adjust REGRESS_OPTS because we need a UTF8 database
> -REGRESS_OPTS = --dbname=$(CONTRIB_TESTDB) --multibyte=UTF8 --no-locale
> +# We need a UTF8 database +ENCODING = UTF8 +NO_LOCALE = 1
>
>
> Wouldn't it have worked just to change the way we spelled the option
> name in the REGRESS_OPTS line?
It would have, but this way you have the same uniform interface
everywhere. For example, you can easily override the encoding that that
test prescribes.