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where is the locale set for each server instance?

From
Palle Girgensohn
Date:
Hi!

I'm pluggin ICU into PostgreSQL for unicode collation, since FreeBSD has no
support for unicode collation. It works fine, but I cannot find out where
to set the default locale for each backend instance. I want to use the
LC_COLLATE used in initdb, now I've just hard wired it for my own needs. I
tried backend/access/transam/xlog.c:ReadControlFile, but it is not
sufficient.

in backend/main/main.c:
    /*
     * Set up locale information from environment.    Note that LC_CTYPE and
     * LC_COLLATE will be overridden later from pg_control if we are in an
     * already-initialized database.

So, I'm trying to find out where LC_COLLATE is overridden. Any tips?

Thanks,
Palle

Re: where is the locale set for each server instance?

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
> So, I'm trying to find out where LC_COLLATE is overridden. Any tips?

access/transam/xlog.c (which is the only file that touches pg_control,
I believe).

            regards, tom lane

Re: where is the locale set for each server instance?

From
Palle Girgensohn
Date:

--On söndag, mars 13, 2005 17.01.31 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
>> So, I'm trying to find out where LC_COLLATE is overridden. Any tips?
>
> access/transam/xlog.c (which is the only file that touches pg_control,
> I believe).

OK, seems my problem is with ICU. The xlog.c:ReadConfigFile() is not run
for each backend, it seems, I assume it is forked after that. Seems ICU
cannot "remember" a setDefault(locale) call for some reason. I'll just have
to do a setlocale(LC_COLLATE, NULL) when I need one, I guess... It'll work
fine.

Thanks!

Palle

Re: where is the locale set for each server instance?

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
> OK, seems my problem is with ICU. The xlog.c:ReadConfigFile() is not run
> for each backend, it seems, I assume it is forked after that.

No, it is run once in the postmaster, as indeed the comments in it say.

> Seems ICU
> cannot "remember" a setDefault(locale) call for some reason.

Curious.  You'd expect whatever state that sets to persist across a fork.
You should probably ping the ICU people about it.

            regards, tom lane

Re: where is the locale set for each server instance?

From
Palle Girgensohn
Date:

--On söndag, mars 13, 2005 18.37.24 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
>> OK, seems my problem is with ICU. The xlog.c:ReadConfigFile() is not run
>> for each backend, it seems, I assume it is forked after that.
>
> No, it is run once in the postmaster, as indeed the comments in it say.
>
>> Seems ICU
>> cannot "remember" a setDefault(locale) call for some reason.
>
> Curious.  You'd expect whatever state that sets to persist across a fork.
> You should probably ping the ICU people about it.

You're right, I will.

Thanks,
Palle