Re: [HACKERS] Re: pgsql: setlocale() on Windows doesn't work correctly if the locale name

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-committers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-04-20T00:22:23Z
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  1. setlocale() on Windows doesn't work correctly if the locale name contains

Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
> (2011/04/16 2:56), Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> setlocale() on Windows doesn't work correctly if the locale name contains
>> apostrophes or dots.

> As for apostrophes, isn't the cause that initdb loses the single quote 
> of locale? ([BUGS] BUG #5818: initdb lose the single quote of locale)

> As the bug reporter mentions, initdb loses the single quote in reality.
> Concretely speaking, scanstr() called from bootscanner.l loses it.
> I'm not sure if it's suitable for the bootstrap code to call scanstr().

Huh?  Bootstrap mode just deals with the data found in
src/include/catalog/*.h.  The locale names found by initdb.c are stuck
in there afterwards, using regular SQL commands.  I don't know where the
problem really comes from, but I doubt the connection you're trying to
make above.

			regards, tom lane