Re: 7.4.13 initdb fails on Turkish locale

Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 18:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, that's never worked in 7.4 ... we didn't add the pg_strcasecmp
>> code until 8.0 devel cycle.

> I mean this one:

> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release-7-4-2.html
> Partial fix for Turkish-locale issues
> initdb will succeed now in Turkish locale, but there are still some
> inconveniences associated with the i/I problem.

Hmm. I wonder what we tested back then? I traced through it, and the
reason it's failing is that strcasecmp() is telling assign_datestyle()
that "iso" and "ISO" are not equal, and as far as I can tell none of the
relevant code has changed in the 7.4 branch. Maybe the release note is
just wrong.

I dug around in the archives and found this discussion:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-02/msg00709.php
That patch was never committed because it didn't pass regression.
AFAICT the only real solution would be to introduce pg_strcasecmp
into 7.4, ie backport this patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2004-05/msg00037.php
which seems entirely unreasonable to me.

regards, tom lane