Second try at getting useful errors out of newlocale/_create_locale.

The early buildfarm returns for commit 1e165d05f are pretty awful:
not only does Windows not return a useful error, but it looks like
a lot of Unix-ish platforms don't either.  Given the number of
different errnos seen so far, guess that what's really going on is
that some newlocale() implementations fail to set errno at all.
Hence, let's try zeroing errno just before newlocale() and then
if it's still zero report as though it's ENOENT.  That should cover
the Windows case too.

It's clear that we'll have to drop the regression test case, unless
we want to maintain a separate expected-file for platforms without
HAVE_LOCALE_T.  But I'll leave it there awhile longer to see if this
actually improves matters or not.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKKotZS-wcDcofXDCH=sidiuajE+nqHn2CGjLLX78anyDmi3gQ@mail.gmail.com

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
index 9500c6b39f8..13e7625b20c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
@@ -1229,10 +1229,15 @@ report_newlocale_failure(const char *localename)
 {
 	int			save_errno;
 
-	/* On Windows, transform _create_locale() error to errno */
-#ifdef WIN32
-	_dosmaperr(GetLastError());
-#endif
+	/*
+	 * Windows doesn't provide any useful error indication from
+	 * _create_locale(), and BSD-derived platforms don't seem to feel they
+	 * need to set errno either (even though POSIX is pretty clear that
+	 * newlocale should do so).  So, if errno hasn't been set, assume ENOENT
+	 * is what to report.
+	 */
+	if (errno == 0)
+		errno = ENOENT;
 
 	/*
 	 * ENOENT means "no such locale", not "no such file", so clarify that
@@ -1311,6 +1316,7 @@ pg_newlocale_from_collation(Oid collid)
 			if (strcmp(collcollate, collctype) == 0)
 			{
 				/* Normal case where they're the same */
+				errno = 0;
 #ifndef WIN32
 				loc = newlocale(LC_COLLATE_MASK | LC_CTYPE_MASK, collcollate,
 								NULL);
@@ -1326,9 +1332,11 @@ pg_newlocale_from_collation(Oid collid)
 				/* We need two newlocale() steps */
 				locale_t	loc1;
 
+				errno = 0;
 				loc1 = newlocale(LC_COLLATE_MASK, collcollate, NULL);
 				if (!loc1)
 					report_newlocale_failure(collcollate);
+				errno = 0;
 				loc = newlocale(LC_CTYPE_MASK, collctype, loc1);
 				if (!loc)
 					report_newlocale_failure(collctype);