Re: buildfarm / handling (undefined) locales

On 14 Květen 2014, 16:26, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 05:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Anyway, given that we seem to have consensus on doing this (modulo
>> exact text of the error message), the next question is whether we
>> want to change this only in HEAD, or consider it a back-patchable
>> bug fix.  I lean to the former but can see that there's some
>> argument for the latter.
>
> HEAD-only. There might be scripts out there that do initdb with invalid
> LANG. They might be perfectly happy with getting the C locale, and
> backpatching this would make them unhappy.

Not sure if 'happy with broken config' is the right argument here, but it
certainly is a behaviour change / not a bugfix, so +1 for HEAD-only from
me too.

Tomas