Re: invalid multibyte character for locale

Apparently your hack does not kill #define USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER.

BTW, the current code for upper/lower etc. seems to be broken. The
exact problem you have are happening in Japanese encodings too(EUC_JP)
too. PostgreSQL should not use wide-character method if LC_CTYPE is C.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

> L.S.
>
> I have a database created on:
>
> db=# select version();
>                                version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66
> (1 row)
>
>
> The initdb was done using no-locale and unicode as default encoding, the
> particular database itself is indeed encoded as UNICODE.
>
>
> Due to a buggy glibc, the following patch was applied to this install in order
> to avoid a crash on things like 'upper(<string>)':
>
> --- oracle_compat.c_orig        Mon Dec  6 22:14:11 2004
> +++ oracle_compat.c     Mon Dec  6 22:14:24 2004
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
>   * We assume if we have these two functions, we have their friends too, and
>   * can use the wide-character method.
>   */
> -#if defined(HAVE_WCSTOMBS) && defined(HAVE_TOWLOWER)
> +#if defined(HAVE_WCSTOMBS) && defined(HAVE_TOWLOWER) && FALSE
>  #define USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER
>  #endif
>
>
> The database on this machine was dumped and then restored on another, which
> has a more recent installation of Slack on it:
>
>
> db=# select version();
>                                 version
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
> (1 row)
>
>
> Again, the initdb on this machine was done using no-locale and unicode as
> default encoding, the particular database obviously is also encoded as
> UNICODE.
>
>
>
> On the second machine, I'm now getting the following:
>
> db=# select 'JÜTERBOG';
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  JÜTERBOG
> (1 row)
>
> db=# select lower('JÜTERBOG');
> ERROR:  invalid multibyte character for locale
> HINT:  The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the database
> encoding.
>
>
>
> As far as I can tell, this didn't happen with v8.0.0, but I'm afraid I can't
> be totally sure about that. Obviously, the error doesn't occur on the first
> machine due to the hack needed for the buggy glibc.
>
>
> I'd appreciate a pointer as to what is causing this. It 'shouldn't' be the
> hack nor the dump/restore cycle, but.......?
>
>
> TIA.
>
>
>
> --
> Best,
>
>
>
>
> Frank.
>
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