On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> > Sorry, I was unclear. ?The question is whether the case of _name_ of the >> > locale is significant, meaning can you have two locale names that differ >> > only by case and behave differently? >> >> That would seem surprising to me, but I really have no idea. >> >> There's the other direction, too: two locales that vary by something >> more than case, but still have identical behavior. Maybe we just >> decide not to worry about that, but then why worry about this? > > Well, if we remove the check then people could easily get broken > upgrades by upgrading to a server with a different locale. A Google > search seems to indicate the locale names are case-sensitive so I am > thinking the problem is that the user didn't have exact locales, and > needs that to use pg_upgrade.
I think you misread what I wrote, or I misexplained it, but never mind. Matching locale names case-insensitively sounds reasonable to me, unless someone has reason to believe it will blow up. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
