Re: Relocatable locale

Tom Lane said:
> Bruce Momjian  writes:
>> I think the best we can do is putenv() for our apps, and document the
>> variable for other apps.
>
> Document what?  How will another app find libpq's locale file?
> AFAICS *it can't*.  Documenting a useless variable is not a solution.
>

You wouldn't expect the environment var to be set by an app in those
cases - it would be set by a sysadmin or an installer on a system-wide
basis when pg is installed in other than the hardcoded location. At least,
that's the way I understood Bruce's suggestion.

cheers

andrew