Re: Keeping Postgresql-9.6 on Buster

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Phil Endecott <spam_from_pgsql_lists(at)chezphil(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-debian(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Keeping Postgresql-9.6 on Buster
Date: 2019-07-11 19:55:41
Message-ID: 20190711195519.GB15076@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Phil Endecott 2019-07-11 <1562848237936(at)dmwebmail(dot)dmwebmail(dot)chezphil(dot)org>
> OK, I have found this: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes
> and your linked email.
>
> Much of my data is just ASCII, or binary blobs, but I think I probably set
> the locales to UTF8. Hmmm.

You are affected as soon as you put an index on a "text" column with
en_US.UTF-8 collation that contains things as simple as "1-1" "1 1".
These will switch ordering, and the old index is corrupt wrt. the new
operating system. Indexes on "bytea" are fine.

> I will probably have more questions, unless I just decide to not upgrade.
> Is this the best place to ask?

Here or on pgsql-general.

Christoph

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