Re: How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

On 1 Dec 2010, at 15:15, Andrus wrote:

>> There is no portable operating system interface to get the names of all
>> locales.
>
> Thank you.
> Why postgres does not use conditional directives like
>
> #ifdef WINDOWS
> ...
> #endif
>
> #ifdef LINUX
> ..
> #endif
>
> to return list of available locales ?


Because, as opposed to the developers of the projects that you're apparently familiar with, the Postgres developers
havecommon sense ;) 

Seriously though, functionality like that has no place in a database server. That's the responsibility of the OS, or if
itlacks in that respect, for third-party tools. 

Alban Hertroys

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