On 04/19/2011 09:42 PM, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>
> bootstrap_template1() in initdb runs the BKI script in bootstrap
> mode to create template1. Some symbols (LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE in
> pg_database etc) in the BKI script are substituted by actual values
> using replace_token(). Isn't it correct?
> ISTM replace_token() takes care of nothing about single quotes
> in its input values but the comment in scanstr() says
> /*
> * Note: if scanner is working right, unescaped
> quotes can only
> * appear in pairs, so there should be another
> character.
> */
>
That's perfectly true, but only one of the replaced locale names
contains a single quote mark. So clearly there's more going on here than
just the bug you're referring to. Heikki's commit message specifically
refers to dots in locale names, which shouldn't cause a problem of that
type, I believe.
cheers
andrew