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Heikki Linnakangas a88b6e4cfb setlocale() on Windows doesn't work correctly if the locale name contains dots. I previously worked around this in initdb, mapping the known problematic locale names to aliases that work, but Hiroshi Inoue pointed out that that's not enough because even if you use one of the aliases, like "Chinese_HKG", setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL) returns back the long form, ie. "Chinese_Hong Kong S.A.R.". When we try to restore an old locale value by passing that value back to setlocale(), it fails. Note that you are affected by this bug also if you use one of those short-form names manually, so just reverting the hack in initdb won't fix it. To work around that, move the locale name mapping from initdb to a wrapper around setlocale(), so that the mapping is invoked on every setlocale() call. Also, add a few checks for failed setlocale() calls in the backend. These calls shouldn't fail, and if they do there isn't much we can do about it, but at least you'll get a warning. Backpatch to 9.1, where the initdb hack was introduced. The Windows bug affects older versions too if you set locale manually to one of the aliases, but given the lack of complaints from the field, I'm hesitent to backpatch.		14 years ago
config	Improve detection of Python 3.2 installations	14 years ago
contrib	Fix not-backwards-compatible pg_upgrade test for prepared transactions.	14 years ago
doc	The replication status values in pg_stat_replication was changed to	14 years ago
src	setlocale() on Windows doesn't work correctly if the locale name contains	14 years ago
.gitignore	Add gitignore for mingw/cygwin build outputs	14 years ago
COPYRIGHT	Stamp copyrights for year 2011.	15 years ago
GNUmakefile.in	Build src/ before contrib/ in make world	14 years ago
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README	Remove useless whitespace at end of lines	15 years ago
README.git	Trivial typo fix.	15 years ago
aclocal.m4	Remove cvs keywords from all files.	15 years ago
configure	Include $cc_string in the info reported by a configure run.	14 years ago
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README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.