Richard Huxton wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Brian Wipf <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> PG tried to enforce the same LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE. On OS X, the value >>> of en_US.utf8 didn't exist, so I created a soft link to en_US.UTF-8 in >>> the /usr/share/locale/ directory. When I sort the values of >>> product_id_from_source on both systems using the locales in this manner >>> I get different orderings: > >>> I can happily live with rebuilding indexes if this is the only problem I >>> can expect to encounter, and I would still prefer PITR over replication. >> The whole notion scares the daylights out of me. If you really need >> to use PITR between these two particular platforms, use a locale >> with common behavior --- C/POSIX would work. > > Could you run Linux in a virtual-machine in OS X? I think it would be easier (and more performant) to define a new locale on OS/X (or on Linux) to match the behavior of the other system. (Perhaps define a new locale on both, with matching name and matching behavior). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre "No hay hombre que no aspire a la plenitud, es decir, la suma de experiencias de que un hombre es capaz" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend