Re: pg_locale (Was: Re: Problem with setlocale (found in libecpg)...)

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

    http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Well at least on glibc-2.2 it seems that setlocale retuns a pointer to
> > >> malloced memory, and frees this pointer on subsequent calls to
> > >> setlocale.
> > >> So I would kindly ask you to take a second look at every invokation of
> > >> setlocale.
> >
> > I looked around, and am worried about the behavior of PGLC_current()
> > in src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c.  It doesn't change locale but
> > does retrieve several successive setlocale() results.  Does that work
> > in glibc?
>
>  The patch is attached. Now it's independent on glibc's game of setlocale()
> results and free/strdup. It works for me...
>
>  Thanks to Christof!
>
>     Karel
>
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