Re: Custom Glibc collation version strings under LOCPATH

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Custom Glibc collation version strings under LOCPATH
Date: 2025-06-05 01:00:26
Message-ID: 21dca872-1270-4c17-9622-b071c9a1c265@joeconway.com
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On 6/4/25 19:35, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> wrote:
>> If you go from anything pre-glibc-2.21 to post-glibc-2.21 I think you
>> will find that even with the same data files you get a different sort.
>> The same patch that caused the performance regression [1] (still present
>> in up to date glibc) also cause changes in sort order via C code alone.

> Finding more cases probably involves running something a little like
> Jeremy's torture tests across a huge gallery of versions and
> combinations of cross-version recompiled definitions. Or something
> like that...

Sounds like great fun!

;-)

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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