Re: [BUGS] BUG #6034: pg_upgrade fails when it should not. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #6034: pg_upgrade fails when it should not.
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Msg-id 27051.1306356123@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #6034: pg_upgrade fails when it should not.  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] BUG #6034: pg_upgrade fails when it should not.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> I thought the problem was that they upgraded the OS and now the encoding
>> names changed, though they behaved the same. �Is that now what is
>> happening? �Can they supply the values with different cases?

> Oh, hmm.  I don't know.

The original complaint wasn't too clear.  But I agree with Robert that
case-insensitive comparison is about as far as it seems safe to go in
trying to allow for variant spellings of locale names.  I would think
that a platform that randomly whacks such names around is going to find
a whole lot of software breaking, not only Postgres.
        regards, tom lane


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