On 25/02/15 11:12, Tom Lane wrote:
Gord Tomlin <gord.tom...@sympatico.ca> writes:
z/OS UNIX does have certification as a UNIX system, but there are some
quirks. The most common sources of problems when porting packages to
z/OS UNIX are its use of EBCDIC, and autoconf problems. I guess it's
time for some fail/rinse/repeat.
Hmm ... EBCDIC ... is that mandatory? Because there are a pretty large
number of ASCII dependencies in PG, mostly arising from our support of
multibyte character sets, which are all expected to be ASCII supersets.
If there's not a way to run the server process in ASCII-land, you're
likely dead in the water. I would not want to try to ferret out all
the dependencies.
regards, tom lane
EBCDIC is very strange, lower case letters come before upper case, and each
letter range has 2 gaps. There are lots of other differences.
If at all possible, use ASCII!
Cheers,
Gavin
(Who used to live in EBCDIC land, many, many moons ago)
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