Re: Custom Glibc collation version strings under LOCPATH
Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-04T13:52:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 6/4/25 00:03, Thomas Munro wrote: > One way to move to a newer glibc-based Linux distribution but keep the > locales working the same* without keeping the associated zombie C code > alive is to find the source system's collation definition source > files, compile them with the localedef on the target system and point > to the top-level directory with the environment variable LOCPATH. I don't think this works in all cases because I have seen where sorting was affected by C code rather than than data changes. -- Joe Conway PostgreSQL Contributors Team Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
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Use libc version as a collation version on glibc systems.
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