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From: Tristan Partin <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: On non-Windows, hard depend on uselocale(3)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 04:27:49 -0600
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

I have been working on adding using thread-safe locale APIs within 
Postgres where appropriate[0]. The patch that I originally submitted 
crashed during initdb (whoops!), so I worked on fixing the crash, which 
led me to having to touch some code in chklocale.c, which became 
a frustrating experience because chklocale.c is compiled in 3 different 
configurations.

> pgport_variants = {
>   '_srv': internal_lib_args + {
>     'dependencies': [backend_port_code],
>   },
>   '': default_lib_args + {
>     'dependencies': [frontend_port_code],
>   },
>   '_shlib': default_lib_args + {
>     'pic': true,
>     'dependencies': [frontend_port_code],
>   },
> }

This means that some APIs I added or changed in pg_locale.c, can't be 
used without conditional compilation depending on what variant is being 
compiled. Additionally, I also have conditional compilation based on 
HAVE_USELOCALE and WIN32.

I would like to propose removing HAVE_USELOCALE, and just have WIN32, 
which means that Postgres would require uselocale(3) on anything that 
isn't WIN32.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

-- 
Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)






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