Re: PostgreSQL 7, FreeBSD and locale support

Dmitry,

this is known bug fixed in current sources.
It was discussed in mailing list, briefly you have two options - either
compile sources with -funsigned-char (actually, this option is requiered only
for src/backend/regex), or use --enable-multibyte option for configure.

    Oleg
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I have configured and installed PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on a FreeBSD-4-stable
> box. Configure has been run as
>
> ./configure  --enable-locale --enable-recode
>
> However, trying every combinations of LANG env vars for both server and
> client I gave standard ASCII order as a result of any SELECT ... ORDER BY
> (test/locale/koi8-r as an example). One of my friends tell me that FreeBSD
> has stricter than e.g. Linux locale policy, and do not treat negative
> chars (and cyrillic characters are all above 0x80, so they are negative in
> signed char representation).
>
> Is there a way to get working server on FreeBSD with locale support?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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    Regards,
        Oleg
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