Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc
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Msg-id 26032.1092424252@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc  (Andreas Krennmair <netnews@synflood.at>)
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Andreas Krennmair <netnews@synflood.at> writes:
> creating template1 database in data/base/1 ... FATAL:  XX000: failed to
> initialize lc_monetary to "C"
> LOCATION:  InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:2337
> child process exited with exit code 1

> As an important note you have to know that diet libc's support for all
> the NLS and i18n/l10n-related stuff is largely incomplete and works so
> far that common software compiles and runs 

[ shrug ]  If it returns an error when someone tries to set the locale
to "C", that is *not* a good-enough implementation of the ANSI/ISO C
standard.  Fix the library.
        regards, tom lane


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