On tis, 2011-05-24 at 15:59 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I think you misread what I wrote, or I misexplained it, but never
> > mind. Matching locale names case-insensitively sounds reasonable to
> > me, unless someone has reason to believe it will blow up.
>
> OK, that's what I needed to hear. I have applied the attached patch,
> but only to 9.1 because of the risk of breakage. (This was only the
> first bug report of this, and we aren't 100% certain about the case
> issue.)
On FreeBSD, locale names appear to be case-sensitive:
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale charmap
UTF-8
$ LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8 locale charmap
US-ASCII
$ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 date
Mi 1 Jun 2011 18:22:24 EEST
$ LC_ALL=de_DE.utf-8 date
Wed Jun 1 18:22:47 EEST 2011
So I think that change needs to be reverted.
