Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Matthew Kelly <mkelly@tripadvisor.com>

Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Matthew Spilich <mspilich@tripadvisor.com>

Date: 2014-09-18T04:10:40Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 09/17/2014 09:17 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> What I find astonishing is that whoever maintains glibc (or the Red
> Hat packaging for it) thinks it's OK to change the collation order in
> a minor release.  I'd understand changing it between, say, RHEL 6 and
> RHEL 7.  But the idea that minor release, supposedly safe updates
> think they can whack this around without breaking applications really
> kind of blows my mind.


If confirmed, it certainly requires some ... firm ... bug reports.

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