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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:17:43 -0500
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
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Subject: Re: foreign_data test fails with non-C locale
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> The foreign_data test case is failing when I run "make installcheck" 
> against a server that's been initialized with a locale other than C 
> (en_GB.UTF-8).
>
> The reason is the different ordering of upper and lower case 
> characters, per attached diff file. We can simply add an alternative 
> expected output file, but I'd prefer not to if we can modify the test 
> case instead. We could rename some of the object so that they sort the 
> same in all locales, but that seems a bit awkward in this case.

Regression tests have always failed on non-C locales AFAIK. The 
buildfarm goes out of its way to avoid that.

cheers

andrew