| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: plperl vs LC_COLLATE (was Re: Possible savepoint bug) |
| Date: | 2006-01-09 20:29:52 |
| Message-ID: | 1136838592.3064.6.camel@swithin |
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On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > I don't know. Reading that code just makes my head spin ...
>
> Yeah, too many ifdefs :-(. But I suppose that the initial
> "#ifdef LOCALE_ENVIRON_REQUIRED" block is not compiled on sane
> platforms, meaning that the first code in the routine is the
> unconditional
> if (! setlocale(LC_ALL, ""))
> setlocale_failure = TRUE;
>
*doh!* I had misread that. Now I see.
On Windows that pretty much gives the game away.
>
> > I'm just about out of ideas and right out of time to spend on this.
>
> We could just file a Perl bug report and wait for them to fix it.
>
What's the data risk?
cheers
andrew
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