Re: Relocatable locale

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I'm confused. Can you explain the problem more clearly, please? Do we
> > need to distinguish known apps with a known (relative) message
> > location, from unknown libpq clients?
>
> The problem boils down to the fact that libpq needs to find its data
> files (in this case locale data, but it could be anything), but it
> doesn't know its own location, so it can't use a relative path
> reference as has been proposed.

I am wondering if we should use environment variables, and have our apps
use putenv() to set it to the proper relative path.

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