Re: Fixing the Turkish problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Devrim GUNDUZ
Subject Re: Fixing the Turkish problem
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0405130155440.32062-100000@emo.org.tr
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In response to Fixing the Turkish problem  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Fixing the Turkish problem
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> We're sort of halfway there on coping with the Turkish-locale i-vs-I
> problem.  I'd like to finish the job for 7.5.

Cool!

<snip>
> AFAICS the remaining problem is that there are a bunch of places that
> use strcasecmp() or strncasecmp() to match inputs against locally known
> keywords (such as datestyle or timezone names).  We need to make a
> variant version of strcasecmp that uses this same style of case-folding.
> 
> What I'm thinking of doing is inventing "pg_strcasecmp" and
> "pg_strncasecmp" that act like the above and replacing all calls of the
> standard library functions with these.

If you can post all the patches you'd like to apply, I'd be happy to test 
them. (Sorry for the very late response, btw.)

Regards,

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