Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On mån, 2011-05-09 at 12:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> The problem we'd have is that there's no way (at present) to make such >> a test pass on every platform. Windows has its own set of locale names >> (which initdb fails to install as collations anyway) and we also have >> the problem that OS X can be counted on to get UTF8 sorting wrong. >> (It might be okay for case-folding though; not sure.) Possibly we could >> just provide an alternate expected file for OS X, but I don't see a >> decent workaround for Windows --- it would pretty much have to have its >> very own test case.
> Windows >=Vista has locale names similar to Linux, and my cursory > testing with some hacked up test suite indicates that it produces the > same results as the Linux expected file, modulo some error message > differences. So I think this could be made to work, it just needs > someone to implement a few bits. Well, that would be great, but the "someone" is not going to be me; I don't do Windows. I'd be willing to take responsibility for putting in the regression test once the necessary Windows-specific code was committed, though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers