Re: Upgrade from 7.4.5 to 8.3.3

Zdenek,

> Harvey, Allan AC napsal(a):
> > 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?
> > Regression testing only showed some date format issues if I
> remeber correctly.
> >
>
> I think, problem could be on two places:
>
> 1) libc is broken and does not return correct values.
> 2) locale definition does not contain CODESET information.
>
> Do you use system libc or glibc? You can try create own
> locale by localedef and
> test what happen.
>
> Zdenek
>

I think it would have to be glibc as I used the gcc loaded with the "skunkware" tools that SCO provide.
To date I have had no operational problems, I guess it must be a relatively simple use of postgres.

So I thank you and all the others for their time and suggest that we let this one slide unless you really want to get to the bottom of it. I have the time, just not the understanding of "locale"s and the implications and implementations.

Allan

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