Re: PostgreSQL on z/OS UNIX?

On 25/02/15 11:12, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gord Tomlin <gord(dot)tomlin(at)sympatico(dot)ca> writes:
>> z/OS UNIX does have certification as a UNIX system, but there are some
>> quirks. The most common sources of problems when porting packages to
>> z/OS UNIX are its use of EBCDIC, and autoconf problems. I guess it's
>> time for some fail/rinse/repeat.
> Hmm ... EBCDIC ... is that mandatory? Because there are a pretty large
> number of ASCII dependencies in PG, mostly arising from our support of
> multibyte character sets, which are all expected to be ASCII supersets.
> If there's not a way to run the server process in ASCII-land, you're
> likely dead in the water. I would not want to try to ferret out all
> the dependencies.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

EBCDIC is very strange, lower case letters come before upper case, and each letter range has 2 gaps. There are lots of other differences.

If at all possible, use ASCII!

Cheers,
Gavin

(Who used to live in EBCDIC land, many, many moons ago)