Re: patch for a locale-specific bug in regression tests (REL9_1_STABLE)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz> wrote:
> I've noticed a locale-specific bug in regression tests, I discovered
> thanks to the new "magpie" buildfarm member (testing "cs_CZ" locale).
> The problem is in "foreign_data" where the output is sorted by a column,
> and "cs_CZ" behaves differently from "C" and "en_US".
>
> More precisely, in "C" it's true that ('s4' < 'sc') but that's not true
> in cs_CZ (and supposedly some other locales).
>
> I've fixed this by replacing 'sc' with 't0' which seems to fix the
> ordering (and should work with other locales too). See the patch attached.

This was fixed on master in commit
3e9a2672d25aed15ae6b4a09decbd8927d069868, but that picked the name s0
rather than t0. I suggest we make the same naming decision in the
back-branch to avoid future confusion...

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