Re: Built-in CTYPE provider

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Built-in CTYPE provider
Date: 2024-07-02 16:51:45
Message-ID: 20240702165145.af.nmisch@google.com
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 06:19:08PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-07-01 at 16:03 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> >   An alternative would be to make pg_upgrade reject
> > operating on a cluster that contains use of $SUBJECT.
>
> That wouldn't help anyone.

Can you say more about that? For the last decade at least, I think our
standard for new features has been to error rather than allow an operation
that creates a known path to wrong query results. I think that's a helpful
standard that we should continue to follow.

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