Re: GUC names in messages

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GUC names in messages
Date: 2023-11-27 02:07:16
Message-ID: 3740026.1701050836@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> Is there a reason why we don't just use islower() or is that just to
> get something entirely local independent?

islower() and related functions are not to be trusted for this
purpose. They will certainly give locale-dependent results,
and they might give entirely wrong ones if there's any inconsistency
between the database encoding and what libc thinks the locale is.

regards, tom lane

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