Re: Collation version tracking for macOS

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-06-08T14:16:01Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 3:53 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> No, I quite agree that we have a problem.  What I don't agree is that
>> issuing a lot of false-positive warnings is a solution.

> I mean, how many false-positive warnings do you think we'll get?

The proposed patch would result in a warning about every collation-
sensitive index during every macOS major version upgrade, ie about
once a year for most people.  Seeing that Apple only actually touch
their POSIX collations once a decade or so, that's way too far over
on the crying-wolf end of the scale for me.  We need something that
has at least *some* connection to actual changes.

			regards, tom lane