Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Hmm, is it valid to make pg_regex_locale point to a function-local
> static here? The lifetime of this static is not clear to me, and I
> think this pattern works with at least some compilers, but I remember
> comments on previous patch review threads that this pattern isn't
> kosher.
We use function-local statics in other places, and I have never
heard that it's not kosher. There would be little point in
declaring such a variable static at all if that didn't cause
it to have persistent storage.
regards, tom lane