Re: locale support

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, <ncm(at)zembu(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: locale support
Date: 2001-02-13 19:39:11
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0102132033290.1615-100000@peter.localdomain
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Lamar Owen writes:

> > I don't think so. On RH 6.1, strncmp() is the same it's ever been:
> [snip]
>
> Is that the code after any glibc RPM patches are applied?

Yes.

> I base my assertion on running test queries on a RedHat 6.1 box over a
> year ago, using the non-locale 6.5.3 RPMset I distributed at that point
> (I distributed non-locale RPMs because of it's speed being greater in
> indexing, etc). The user who was having difficulties also tried the
> non-locale RPMset -- and no change, until removing /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

I recall that thread, but the conclusion that was reached (that strncmp()
is at fault in some way) was never proved sufficiently.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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