Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov-2 wrote
> > But still, icu provides us abbreviated keys and collation stability,
>
> Does include ICU mean that collation handling is identical across
> platforms?
> E.g. a query on Linux involving string comparison would yield the same
> result on MacOS and Windows?
>

Yes, it does and that's the most important issue for us.

>
> If that is the case I'm all for it.
>
> Currently the different behaviour in handling collation aware string
> comparisons is a bug in my eyes from a user's perspective. I do understand
> and can accept the technical reasons for that, but it still feels odd that
> a
> query yields different results (with identical data) just because it runs
> on
> a different platform.
>
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