Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > One other problem I'm realizing: didn't Peter ask Bruce to revert the
> > change to make pg_upgrade ignore case differences in locale names, on
> > the grounds that it was not safe?
>
> There was a hypothesis that it wasn't safe, but no very clear evidence
> either way. And we did have the field report of a platform where it'd
> be useful to allow a case discrepancy. I'm not uncomfortable with
> leaving that as-is pending further evidence.
I am going to return to this issue. I thought the cause was that we
allow invalid locale names in initdb, and the user actually was getting
a C locale when in fact he had is locale with the wrong case. I am
going to do more research on this, but obviously after beta2.
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
