Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Krennmair <netnews(at)synflood(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc
Date: 2004-08-13 19:10:52
Message-ID: 26032.1092424252@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Krennmair <netnews(at)synflood(dot)at> writes:
> creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... FATAL: XX000: failed to
> initialize lc_monetary to "C"
> LOCATION: InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:2337
> child process exited with exit code 1

> As an important note you have to know that diet libc's support for all
> the NLS and i18n/l10n-related stuff is largely incomplete and works so
> far that common software compiles and runs

[ shrug ] If it returns an error when someone tries to set the locale
to "C", that is *not* a good-enough implementation of the ANSI/ISO C
standard. Fix the library.

regards, tom lane

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