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    Use a non-locale-dependent definition of isspace() in array_in/array_out. · 95cacd13
    Tom Lane authored
    array_in discards unquoted leading and trailing whitespace in array values,
    while array_out is careful to quote array elements that contain whitespace.
    This is problematic when the definition of "whitespace" varies between
    locales: array_in could drop characters that were meant to be part of the
    value.  To avoid that, lock down "whitespace" to mean only the traditional
    six ASCII space characters.
    
    This change also works around a bug in OS X and some older BSD systems, in
    which isspace() could return true for character fragments in UTF8 locales.
    (There may be other places in PG where that bug could cause problems, but
    this is the only one complained of so far; see recent report from Steven
    Schlansker.)
    
    Back-patch to 9.0, but not further.  Given the lack of previous reports
    of trouble, changing this behavior in stable branches seems to offer
    more risk of breaking applications than reward of avoiding problems.
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