Provide thread-safe pg_localeconv_r().

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: b98be8a2a2a6196dc24631dfe4d8785b86800d23
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2025-03-27T09:54:28Z
Releases: 18.0
Provide thread-safe pg_localeconv_r().

This involves four different implementation strategies:

1.  For Windows, we now require _configthreadlocale() to be available
and work (commit f1da075d9a0), and the documentation says that the
object returned by localeconv() is in thread-local memory.

2.  For glibc, we translate to nl_langinfo_l() calls, because it
offers the same information that way as an extension, and that API is
thread-safe.

3.  For macOS/*BSD, use localeconv_l(), which is thread-safe.

4.  For everything else, use uselocale() to set the locale for the
thread, and use a big ugly lock to defend against the returned object
being concurrently clobbered.  In practice this currently means only
Solaris.

The new call is used in pg_locale.c, replacing calls to setlocale() and
localeconv().

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJqVe0%2BPv9dvC9dSums_PXxGo9SWcxYAMBguWJUGbWz-A%40mail.gmail.com

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configure modified +1 −1
configure.ac modified +1 −0
meson.build modified +1 −0
src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c modified +21 −107
src/include/pg_config.h.in modified +3 −0
src/include/port.h modified +6 −0
src/port/Makefile modified +1 −0
src/port/meson.build modified +1 −0
src/port/pg_localeconv_r.c added +368 −0

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