Re: Re: CREATE COLLATION does not sanitize ICU's BCP 47 language tags. Should it?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: CREATE COLLATION does not sanitize ICU's BCP 47 language tags. Should it?
Date: 2017-10-01 13:52:55
Message-ID: e4b9af80-a9fb-8731-f540-2ca7585e8b7a@2ndquadrant.com
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On 9/30/17 15:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> This suggests to me that arguing about canonicalization is moot so
> far as avoiding reindexing goes: if you change ICU library versions,
> you're screwed and will have to jump through all the reindexing hoops,
> no matter what we do or don't do.

One reason for that is that the collation version also encodes things
like if the internal method for computing sort keys changes.

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