Tom Lane wrote:
> Brian Wipf <brian@clickspace.com> writes:
>> PG tried to enforce the same LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE. On OS X, the
>> value of en_US.utf8 didn't exist, so I created a soft link to
>> en_US.UTF-8 in the /usr/share/locale/ directory. When I sort the
>> values of product_id_from_source on both systems using the locales in
>> this manner I get different orderings:
>> I can happily live with rebuilding indexes if this is the only
>> problem I can expect to encounter, and I would still prefer PITR over
>> replication.
>
> The whole notion scares the daylights out of me. If you really need
> to use PITR between these two particular platforms, use a locale
> with common behavior --- C/POSIX would work.
Could you run Linux in a virtual-machine in OS X?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
