Re: [GENERAL] (Might be a bug) locale issue while upgrading datadirectory from PostgreSQL 8.4 to 9.5

On 07/06/2017 11:13 PM, Mayank Agrawal wrote:
> No, windows has not been upgraded (Windows 7). Moreover, I think it is
> not related to windows version, because I tried the scenarios from
> scratch on a same machine and on a some windows version.
>
> While working on this issue I notices something. Details are as follows:
>
> On Windows7, I installed the PostgreSQL 8.4 with following /--locale/ values
>
>  1.
>
>     /--locale "English_United States.1252"/
>
>     Installation fails, gives same error: 'Locale specified is not
>     supported.'
>
>  2.
>
>     /--locale "English, United States"/
>
>     Successful Installation, value of '/Show lc_collate/': /English,
>     United States/
>
>  3.
>
>     No Value (i.e. parameter /--locale/ is not provided during installation)
>
>     Successful Installation, value of '/Show lc_collate/':
>     /English_United States.1252/
>
> If you notice point 1. and 3., locale value can be stored as
> /English_United States.1252/ but can not be given as a value of
> parameter /--locale/ during installation. This seems to me as a bug.

The answer would seem to be here(~/src/port>chklocale.c):


https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/port/chklocale.c;h=7a3e3af74d1554b706bef10886dc32ace61361ed;hb=aa3bcba08d466bc6fd2558f8f0bf0e6d6c89b58b

around line 195-300.

The behavior looks to be compiler version dependent.

That leads to another question, where did you get Postgres for 8.4 and 9.5?

>
> In my case, /--locale/ parameter was not provided during PostgreSQL 8.4
> installation [scenario 3].
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Mayank Agrawal
>
>
>
> .
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/04/2017 10:23 PM, Mayank Agrawal wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I am upgrading PostgreSQL 8.4 to 9.5 on Windows. There is some
>         issue related to locale. Details are as follows:
>
>         The steps that I am following are:
>
>         1. Install PostgreSQL 9.5 (8.4 is already installed).
>
>         2. Migrate data from 8.4's data dir to 9.5's data dir using
>         pg_upgrade utility.
>
>         3. After successful upgrade, uninstall PostgreSQL 8.4
>
>         Here the issue is that PostgreSQL 8.4 could be installed with
>         any locale (English or French etc.) and to have successful data
>         directory upgrade, PostgreSQL 9.5 must be installed with the
>         same locale as that of 8.4.
>
>         Supplying the output of query 'Show lc_collate' (executed on
>         PostgreSQL 8.4) to PostgreSQL 9.5 installation leads to failed
>         installation. It generates the error 'specified locale is not
>         supported'.
>
>
>     Has the Windows version been upgraded between the install of 8.4 and
>     the upgrade to 9.5?
>
>
>         Here is the example:
>
>         Output (PostgreSQL 8.4) of query 'SHOW LC_COLLATE':
>         English_United States.1252
>
>         A. --locale "English_United States.1252"
>
>         While installing PostgreSQL 9.5, If we pass locale option as
>         above, installer aborts with an error 'specified locale is not
>         supported'.
>
>         B. --locale "English, United States"
>
>         If we pass locale option as above, installation is successful
>         and cluster locale is set to 'English, United States'.
>
>         *Given that one has access to PostgreSQL 8.4, how would one know
>         what value to pass to the parameter --locale while installing
>         PostgreSQL 9.5?*
>
>         Thanks and Regards,
>
>         Mayank Agrawal
>
>
>
>     --
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>
>


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