Re: On non-Windows, hard depend on uselocale(3)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tristan Partin <tristan(at)neon(dot)tech>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On non-Windows, hard depend on uselocale(3)
Date: 2023-11-15 20:51:38
Message-ID: 2946058.1700081498@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 6:45 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> You would need to do some research and try to prove that that won't
>> be a problem on any modern platform. Presumably it once was a problem,
>> or we'd not have bothered with a configure check.

> According to data I scraped from the build farm, the last two systems
> we had that didn't have uselocale() were curculio (OpenBSD 5.9) and
> wrasse (Solaris 11.3), but those were both shut down (though wrasse
> still runs old branches) as they were well out of support.

AFAICS, NetBSD still doesn't have it. They have no on-line man page
for it, and my animal mamba shows it as not found.

regards, tom lane

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