Re: Windows default locale vs initdb

Hi,

I am a complete noob about PostgreSQL development.
I don't know about the PostgreSQL CI system.
I will be needing some help as to how to do the tests.
I have access to different Windows OSes (v10, Server 2022 mainly).
These systems can be set to English or Turkish locales if needed.
I can also add new Windows versions if needed.
I do not know how to use patch files. I am also not sure what tests I
should do.
Do I need to set up a Windows build system for PostgreSQL CI?
Will I download some files (EXE, etc) ready for testing? Copy them over an
existing installation for testing?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Ertan

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, 22 Tem 2024 Pzt, 05:52 tarihinde
şunu yazdı:

> Ertan Küçükoglu offered to try to review and test this, so here's a rebase.
>
> Some notes:
>
> * it turned out that the Turkish i/I test problem I mentioned earlier
> in this thread[1] was just always broken on Windows, we just didn't
> ever test with UTF-8 before Meson took over; it's skipped now, see
> commit cff4e5a3[2]
>
> * it seems that you can't actually put encodings like .1252 on the end
> (.UTF-8 must be a special case); I don't know if we should look into a
> better UTF-8 mode for modern Windows, but that'd be a separate project
>
> * this patch only benefits people who run initdb.exe without
> explicitly specifying a locale; probably a good number of real systems
> in the wild actually use EDB's graphical installer which initialises a
> cluster and has its own way of choosing the locale, as discussed in
> Ertan's thread[3]
>
> [1]
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BhUKGJZskvCh%3DQm75UkHrY6c1QZUuC92Po9rponj1BbLmcMEA%40mail.gmail.com#3a00c08214a4285d2f3c4297b0ac2be2
> [2] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/cff4e5a3
> [3]
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAH2i4ydECHZPxEBB7gtRG3vROv7a0d3tqAFXzcJWQ9hRsc1znQ%40mail.gmail.com
>