>     oe> Try setting the environment variable LANG before starting the
>     oe> postmaster:
>     oe>   $ export LANG=en_US
> Unfortunately, this doesn't prevent the backend problem; the backend
> still complains about the money format the and front-end gets a broken
> pipe.  Not sure what about the locale postgres doesn't like.  For now,
> I guess I'll just stick with my home-built version that doesn't use
> the locale at all.

I tried this at my clean RH5.0 machine at work, with the RH5.0 rpm
installation of Postgres. It didn't help, and I guess I would have been
suprised if it did since the locale environment should have defaulted to
the "C" (same as "POSIX"?) conventions. I didn't get a backend crash,
just the usual symptom.

Didn't find a new Postgres package in Cristian's directory when I looked
this morning, but _did_ find a glibc2.0.7-2. Unfortunately it didn't seem
to fix the rounding problem in date/time. I stopped and restarted the
Postgres backend, but did not reboot the machine; was that sufficient?
Seems like 2.0.7-2 should have the features (and fixes) Oliver reported
for Debian, so don't know the story :(

My little test program, which also fails on my RH4.2 system, is included
below. It should return some characters related to locale; in this
version it tries the numeric decimal point (which does print) and the
money decimal point, which doesn't. Used to work, though as I mentioned
the code as it is currently may be damaged by my trial and error attempts
to get locale support working.

                                                    - Tom
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 03:02:40 +0000
"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: [QUESTIONS] 6.2.1 COPY X FROM stdin; -- broken pipe
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> Didn't find a new Postgres package in Cristian's directory when I looked
> this morning, but _did_ find a glibc2.0.7-2. Unfortunately it didn't seem
> to fix the rounding problem in date/time. I stopped and restarted the

I've put the packages on ftp://ftp.redhat.com/home/gafton/pgsql. For the
beta 6.3 I have put the regression test results too, so anybody can take a
look at them and comment.

Please take a look at the packages and tell me if there is something
missing from them (that is, things not installed by default by 'make
install' that ought to be included in a binary package though...

Best wishes,

Cristian
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Sun, 1 Mar 1998 04:23:53 -0500 (EST)
Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] 6.2.1 COPY X FROM stdin; -- broken pipe