Re: Open issues for collations

Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of sáb abr 09 01:32:28 -0300 2011:
> On fre, 2011-04-08 at 16:14 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie abr 08 15:27:15 -0300 2011:
> > > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > > > On lör, 2011-03-26 at 00:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >> * Remove initdb's warning about useless locales?  Seems like pointless
> > > >> noise, or at least something that can be relegated to debug mode.
> > > 
> > > > Quick question on this:  Should we at least warn if zero suitable
> > > > locales were found or some other problem scenario?  Or should we just
> > > > wait around and see what actual problems, if any, will be reported?
> > > 
> > > Well, my opinion is that normal users never see the output of initdb
> > > at all, so I don't think there's that much value in complaining there.
> > 
> > Those users are not going to have those problems anyway.  The
> > problematic users are going to be those running on unusual platforms.
> 
> So what is your opinion on the original question?

I feel throwing a warning is appropriate here, because people for which
problems are most likely are going to see them.

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