On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:06, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > Is it a good idea that we run make check with MULTIBYTE = SQL_ASCII by > default? We run it with the user's locale by default, so shouldn't we > use the encoding that belongs to the locale by default? Otherwise we > are testing a fairly unrepresentative environment. If you really want > to test SQL_ASCII you could of course choose it explicitly or set the > locale to C.
It seems good to run make check successfully on many platforms, but we might miss locale-dependent bugs. Personally speaking, I often recommend to use UTF-8 + C locale combinations for users, but I'm not sure it's the most common use-cases or not. -- Itagaki Takahiro -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
