Version information is available from the
<literal>icu</literal> provider on all operating systems. For the
<literal>libc</literal> provider, versions are currently only available
- on systems using the GNU C library (most Linux systems) and Windows.
+ on systems using the GNU C library (most Linux systems), FreeBSD and
+ Windows.
</para>
<note>
/* Use the glibc version because we don't have anything better. */
collversion = pstrdup(gnu_get_libc_version());
+#elif defined(LC_VERSION_MASK)
+ locale_t loc;
+
+ /* C[.encoding] and POSIX never change. */
+ if (strcmp("C", collcollate) == 0 ||
+ strncmp("C.", collcollate, 2) == 0 ||
+ strcmp("POSIX", collcollate) == 0)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Look up FreeBSD collation version. */
+ loc = newlocale(LC_COLLATE, collcollate, NULL);
+ if (loc)
+ {
+ collversion =
+ pstrdup(querylocale(LC_COLLATE_MASK | LC_VERSION_MASK, loc));
+ freelocale(loc);
+ }
+ else
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errmsg("could not load locale \"%s\"", collcollate)));
#elif defined(WIN32) && _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600
/*
* If we are targeting Windows Vista and above, we can ask for a name