Re: plperl / locale / win32

applied to HEAD, 8.1 and 8.0.

cheers

andrew

I wrote:

>
> I have now tested the patch. It passes regression and the test case
> Tom previously posted. Unless there's an objection I will apply it and
> backport it in the next few days.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> I wrote:
>
>>
>> I was reminded today of the outstanding issue with plperl setting the
>> locale on Windows, and our environment workaround not working there.
>>
>> There has been NO response to the bug I filed (#38193) at rt.perl.org
>> about this issue.
>>
>> The attached patch adapts one I previously tested as working, but
>> instead of calling setlocale() directly it gets perl to do it so that
>> perl and postgres have the same idea of what the locale should be,
>> which should meet Greg's and Tom's objection to the previous patch.
>> My Windows machine is currently doing other work, so I can't test
>> right now - if someone else could that would be nice.
>
>