From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tim Uckun <timuckun(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [BUGS] BUG #6034: pg_upgrade fails when it should not. |
Date: | 2011-06-01 18:28:56 |
Message-ID: | 1306952936.2279.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On ons, 2011-06-01 at 13:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >>> I think you misread what I wrote, or I misexplained it, but never
> >>> mind. Matching locale names case-insensitively sounds reasonable to
> >>> me, unless someone has reason to believe it will blow up.
>
> > On FreeBSD, locale names appear to be case-sensitive:
>
> > $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale charmap
> > UTF-8
>
> > $ LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 locale charmap
> > US-ASCII
>
> Hm, surely the latter result indicates that "en_US.utf-8" is not in fact
> a valid locale name?
>
> It would only be a problem if different case-foldings of the same name
> represented valid but different locales on some platform, and that seems
> rather hard to believe (it would be a pretty foolish choice no?).
Well, initdb still succeeds if you give it an invalid locale name. It
warns, but that can easily be missed if initdb is hidden behind a few
other layers. If you then run pg_upgrade, you get a hosed instance.
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