On lör, 2011-04-23 at 11:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > * Where they're not, install the locale_t with uselocale(), do > > mbstowcs or wcstombs, and revert to the former locale_t setting. > > This is ugly as sin, and not thread-safe, but of course lots of > > the backend is not thread-safe. > > I've been corrected on that: uselocale() *is* thread safe, at least in > glibc (it only affects the locale used by the current thread). And it's > "only a few instructions" according to Jakub Jelinek. So a temporary > setting via uselocale is exactly what you're supposed to do for any > locale-sensitive function that hasn't got a *_l variant.
Good to know. It was certainly very strange, this gap in the API. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
