Re: Problem with setlocale (found in libecpg) [accessing a
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Christof Petig <christof@petig-baender.de>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-09-27T04:08:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>> Well at least on glibc-2.2 it seems that setlocale retuns a pointer to >> malloced memory, and frees this pointer on subsequent calls to >> setlocale. >> So I would kindly ask you to take a second look at every invokation of >> setlocale. I looked around, and am worried about the behavior of PGLC_current() in src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c. It doesn't change locale but does retrieve several successive setlocale() results. Does that work in glibc? regards, tom lane