Re: foreign_data test fails with non-C locale

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: foreign_data test fails with non-C locale
Date: 2009-01-09 14:17:43
Message-ID: 49675C87.8070303@dunslane.net
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> The foreign_data test case is failing when I run "make installcheck"
> against a server that's been initialized with a locale other than C
> (en_GB.UTF-8).
>
> The reason is the different ordering of upper and lower case
> characters, per attached diff file. We can simply add an alternative
> expected output file, but I'd prefer not to if we can modify the test
> case instead. We could rename some of the object so that they sort the
> same in all locales, but that seems a bit awkward in this case.

Regression tests have always failed on non-C locales AFAIK. The
buildfarm goes out of its way to avoid that.

cheers

andrew

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