Re: Solaris testers wanted for strxfrm() behavior

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Solaris testers wanted for strxfrm() behavior
Date: 2015-06-28 23:52:26
Message-ID: CAEepm=1YAZcx2ZH1OtjV=UX7E+yz=msihdTsTzmZv59hxmtqJw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Just by the way, I wonder if this was that bug:
>> https://illumos.org/issues/1594
>
> Oooh. Might or might not be *same* bug, but it sure looks like it could
> have the right symptom. If this is indeed inherited from old Solaris,
> I'm afraid we are totally fooling ourselves if we guess that it's no
> longer present in the wild.

Also, here is an interesting patch that went into the Apache C++
standard library. Maybe the problem was limited to amd64 system...

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-userland/blob/master/components/stdcxx/patches/047-collate.cpp.patch

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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com

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