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

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-15T20:51:38Z
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  1. Revert "Tidy up locale thread safety in ECPG library."

  2. Tidy up locale thread safety in ECPG library.

  3. Revert "Blind attempt to fix _configthreadlocale() failures on MinGW."

  4. Require ucrt if using MinGW.

  5. Remove configure check for _configthreadlocale().

  6. Simplify checking for xlocale.h

  7. All supported systems have locale_t.

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 6:45 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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