Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 6.5 beta2 and beta3 problem

Hi!

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > I believe we can make the assumption, that if you --enable-locale, but do not
> > use --with-mb, then you are using single-byte locales and therefore the hack
> > might work properly.
>
> I believe at least one person uses both --enable-locale and --with-mb
> for single byte locale.

I think it's me. But very soon all in Russia will use locale+mb for koi8
and win1251 locales - all of us are always in need to convert between them.
Making Postgres convert on-the-fly is big win.

> Once I propsed another solution to BSD/OS guy (I don't remember who he
> was) and asked him to check if it worked. Unfortunately I got no
> answer from him. Then I merged it into #ifdef MULTIBYTE sections in

I remember he raised the issue few times, and finally we agreed on
-funsigned-char. I think, he got a working Postgres and locale after all.

> regcomp.c and it seems work at least for cyrillic locale (Thanks Oleg
> for testing!).

Works now pretty good!

> ---
> Tatsuo Ishii

Oleg.
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