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Re: Collation versioning

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-09-12T11:25:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Re: Peter Eisentraut 2018-09-12 <0447ec7b-cdb6-7252-7943-88a4664e7bb7@2ndquadrant.com>
> > Naive idea: make that catalog shared? Collations are system-wide after
> > all.
> 
> By the same argument, extensions should be shared, but they are not.

But extensions put a lot of visible stuff into a database, whereas a
collation is just a line in some table that doesn't get into the way.

Christoph

Commits

  1. Doc: Document known problem with Windows collation versions.

  2. Add collation versions for FreeBSD.

  3. Tolerate version lookup failure for old style Windows locale names.

  4. Track collation versions for indexes.

  5. Add pg_depend.refobjversion.

  6. Remove pg_collation.collversion.

  7. Fix the MSVC build for versions 2015 and later.

  8. Add collation versions for Windows.

  9. Implement type regcollation

  10. Use libc version as a collation version on glibc systems.

  11. Make type "name" collation-aware.