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

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>
Date: 2024-07-23T20:07:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 07:39 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> we should remedy the step backward that pg_c_utf8 has taken:

Obviously I disagree that we've taken a step backwards.

Can you articulate the principle by which all of the other problems
with IMMUTABLE are just fine, but updates to Unicode are intolerable,
and only for PG_C_UTF8?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis