Re: BUG #3932: utf-8 and upper()/lower(): PANIC: ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE exceeded

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Florian Wunderlich <fwunderlich(at)factor3(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #3932: utf-8 and upper()/lower(): PANIC: ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE exceeded
Date: 2008-02-05 13:03:30
Message-ID: 20080205130330.GD32363@alvh.no-ip.org
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Florian Wunderlich wrote:

> - input file in encoding iso-8859-1:
>
> set client_encoding='iso-8859-1';
> select upper('ä'), lower('Ä');
>
> (note: the argument to upper is a lower case a umlaut, while the argument to
> lower is an upper case a umlaut)
>
> - database "iso" with encoding iso-8859-1,
> database "utf" with encoding utf-8,
> both in a cluster with locale=de_DE

I think this is just a case of a misconfigured server. If you choose
locale de_DE, which supports only the iso-8859-1 encoding, it is an
error to build a database with utf8 encoding -- which is why 8.3 rejects
that combination.

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