Re: default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:05:03PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > That is one thing I liked about the initdb mention --- it clearly told
> > them to watch out for something they might not have been looking for.
> 
> Only if they read the message, though.  People who are running RPM
> installations probably never get to see what initdb has to say ...
> so I can't put much faith in the usefulness of warnings emitted by
> initdb.

It'd be nice if the RPM installation mailed initdb's messages to someone
(root@localhost maybe).  It's not impossible, and while it's likely that
RedHat would remove the feature, at least PGDG's RPM would do it.  Same
for DEBs and other binary packages...

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