Re: use of initcap() causes segfault in v8.0.0beta5, where it doesn't in v7.4.6 (coredump included)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: use of initcap() causes segfault in v8.0.0beta5, where it doesn't in v7.4.6 (coredump included)
Date: 2004-11-27 02:31:52
Message-ID: 21496.1101522712@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl> writes:
> I'll look into the possibility of upgrading libc, but given the source of
> oracle_compat.c, would it be possible to get the v7.4.6 behaviour back for
> the time being by fiddling the #define USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER ?

Yeah, IIRC it should be a one-liner kind of change to force the
non-towupper fallback. If this turns out to be a widespread bug we
might have to consider making configure know about it :-(

regards, tom lane

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