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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: foreign_data test fails with non-C locale
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:32 +0200
Message-ID: <49675DE4.9050603@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49675C87.8070303@dunslane.net>
References: <49675B3F.20002@enterprisedb.com>
	<49675C87.8070303@dunslane.net>

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 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.

No, that's the only test case that's failing.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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