Re: force C locale for temp regression installations

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: force C locale for temp regression installations
Date: 2005-08-26 17:25:27
Message-ID: 14358.1125077127@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane said:
>> Sure. If we'd been seeing these failures all along, I might think that
>> --no-locale was a good solution, but since they just popped up I think
>> suspicion has to fall on the latest patches.

> That's it alright. When I change the ifndef in varlena.c to #ifndef xxxWIN32
> the regression tests sail through.

OK, so what is your default locale on that machine? In particular, is
it UTF16-based?

Now that I look at it, the strncoll code is utterly obviously broken :-(

regards, tom lane

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