Re: [18] Policy on IMMUTABLE functions and Unicode updates

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>, LaurenzAlbe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Date: 2024-07-16T20:47:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 2024-07-16 at 13:27 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> I'd teach pg_upgrade to inspect the post-upgraded catalog of is-use
> dependencies and report on any of these it finds and remind the DBA
> that this latent issue may exist in their system.

That's impossible to do in a complete way, and hard to do with much
accuracy. I don't oppose it though -- if someone finds a way to provide
enough information to be useful, then that's fine with me.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis