Re: Upgrade from 7.4.5 to 8.3.3

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Harvey, Allan AC" <HarveyA(at)OneSteel(dot)com>
Cc: Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrade from 7.4.5 to 8.3.3
Date: 2008-10-27 09:55:44
Message-ID: 49059020.2040804@gmx.net
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Harvey, Allan AC wrote:
> Zdenek,
>
>> Hmm, It does not look good. Your OS does not return proper
>> information about
>> codeset. Following code is broken:
>>
>> setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ctype);
>> sys = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
>> sys = strdup(sys);
>>
>> See
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/nl_lan
> ginfo.html
>
>> It seems you need to fix OS first. After that we can add CODESET mapping to
>> PostgreSQL.
>
>> Zdenek
>
> I don't think this is possible.
>
> Can you give me an indication what problems I should look out for?

SQL_ASCII might work tolerably if all your clients use the same client
encoding.

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