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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Rural Hunter <ruralhunter@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_upgrade from 9.1.3 to 9.2 failed
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:24:04 -0400
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On 9/24/12 10:13 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, what I found out last time I touched this code is that on many
> systems setlocale doesn't bother to return a canonicalized spelling;
> it just gives back the string you gave it.  It might be worth doing
> what Peter suggests, just to be consistent with what we are doing
> elsewhere, but I'm not sure how much it will help.

It might not have anything to do with the current problem, but if initdb
canonicalizes locale names, then pg_upgrade also has to.  Otherwise,
whenever an operating system changes its locale canonicalization rules,
pg_upgrade will fail.




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