Re: [ADMIN] pg_upgrade from 9.1.3 to 9.2 failed

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Rural Hunter <ruralhunter(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_upgrade from 9.1.3 to 9.2 failed
Date: 2012-09-24 15:24:04
Message-ID: 50607B14.1000906@gmx.net
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On 9/24/12 10:13 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, what I found out last time I touched this code is that on many
> systems setlocale doesn't bother to return a canonicalized spelling;
> it just gives back the string you gave it. It might be worth doing
> what Peter suggests, just to be consistent with what we are doing
> elsewhere, but I'm not sure how much it will help.

It might not have anything to do with the current problem, but if initdb
canonicalizes locale names, then pg_upgrade also has to. Otherwise,
whenever an operating system changes its locale canonicalization rules,
pg_upgrade will fail.

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