Re: buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales

Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz> writes:
> On 13.5.2014 23:07, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Attached is a draft patch that behaves like this:
>> 
>> $ initdb --locale=foo
>> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
>> This user must also own the server process.
>> 
>> initdb: invalid locale name "foo"

> I see the committed patch actually behaves like this:

>   initdb: invalid locale name "cs_CZ.WIN-1250"
>   The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
>   "pgbuild".
>   This user must also own the server process.

> (at least that's what magpie logged at [1]). I find that confusing,

Interesting. I guess stdout isn't getting fflush'd soon enough when
it's going to a file.  We should probably mark it as line-buffered
so the behavior is consistent with the interactive case.
        regards, tom lane