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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Skip test citext_utf8 on Windows
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:55:53 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


On 2024-03-11 Mo 04:21, Oleg Tselebrovskiy wrote:
> Greetings, everyone!
>
> While running "installchecks" on databases with UTF-8 encoding the test
> citext_utf8 fails because of Turkish dotted I like this:
>
>  SELECT 'i'::citext = 'İ'::citext AS t;
>   t
>  ---
> - t
> + f
>  (1 row)
>
> I tried to replicate the test's results by hand and with any collation
> that I tried (including --locale="Turkish") this test failed
>
> Also an interesing result of my tesing. If you initialize you DB
> with -E utf-8 --locale="Turkish" and then run select LOWER('İ');
> the output will be this:
>  lower
> -------
>  İ
> (1 row)
>
> Which I find strange since lower() uses collation that was passed
> (default in this case but still)



Wouldn't we be better off finding a Windows fix for this, instead of 
sweeping it under the rug?


cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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