RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Windows Application Issues | PostgreSQL | REF # 48475607

Hi Thomas and Andrew,

Just would like to follow up with you about this bug. How is it going with the investigation?

Thanks!
Haifang

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Windows Application Issues | PostgreSQL | REF # 48475607

I am going to withdraw this proposal. In another email thread, we learned two very important things:

1. The problem of a locale names changing for an *existing* database can apparently be fixed using "Locale Builder"[1]. Users in Turkey have presumably already addressed the situation that way and there are reports of articles about that in Turkish. We don't really need the "setlocale.map" rename-on-the-fly patch in this thread, and I don't want to maintain it if we don't need it.

2. The Windows runtime library is crashing when initdb's subprocess postgres.exe calls it with a name encoded in an encoding it doesn't like[2]. (IMHO it should return NULL instead! The C standard does not have a demons-may-fly-out-of-your-nose clause.) We need to tell users not to use those locale names. That string is actually coming from the EDB installer, and we'll follow up on that. Perhaps PostgreSQL should also consider stripping non-ASCII characters to force it to fail nicely.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGLyfou2xa2fxGOs0WwkOrcKjwqn-bRNR01Hq5RAD16ueg%40mail.gmail.com
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKG%2BFxeRLURZ%3Dn8NPyLwgjFds_SqU_cQvE40ks6RQKUGbGg%40mail.gmail.com