Re: Collation rules and multi-lingual databases

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Collation rules and multi-lingual databases
Date: 2003-08-24 20:19:35
Message-ID: 26721.1061756375@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'd go so far as to make it a critical section --- that ensures that any
>> ERROR will be turned to FATAL, even if it's in a subroutine you call.

> I didn't know we could do that, could be handy, although the comments
> imply that it turns into PANIC which would force a complete restart.

Right, my imprecision, it actually goes to PANIC.

> Then again, it's better than a corrupted database.

Exactly.

regards, tom lane

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