Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthew Kelly <mkelly(at)tripadvisor(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Matthew Spilich <mspilich(at)tripadvisor(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps
Date: 2014-09-18 04:10:40
Message-ID: 541A5B40.4050609@2ndquadrant.com
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On 09/17/2014 09:17 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> What I find astonishing is that whoever maintains glibc (or the Red
> Hat packaging for it) thinks it's OK to change the collation order in
> a minor release. I'd understand changing it between, say, RHEL 6 and
> RHEL 7. But the idea that minor release, supposedly safe updates
> think they can whack this around without breaking applications really
> kind of blows my mind.

If confirmed, it certainly requires some ... firm ... bug reports.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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