Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values
Date: 2017-08-07 17:39:26
Message-ID: 32710.1502127566@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think we'd be well advised to filter the set of installed-by-default
>> collations rather strongly, in hope of avoiding such problems. For
>> starters, do we really need the keyword variants at all? People who
>> know what those are for can create their own collations, and take
>> their own risks of the feature disappearing in later ICU releases.

> Actually, I think I was wrong about it being possible to create the
> collations after the fact. CREATE COLLATION simply doesn't support
> that. This surprised me.

Surely that's a bug?

regards, tom lane

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