Re: Wrong results with postgres_fdw and merge anti join from RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.7

From: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wrong results with postgres_fdw and merge anti join from RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.7
Date: 2023-04-05 19:20:21
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>Yeah, doesn't look like you've made any configuration mistakes.
>So either the two OSes sort differently, or there's index corruption
>causing the indexscan to give bogus output.

We did a rebuild of the indexes and also vacuum full, just to be sure. Did not change anything.

>The sample data you showed seemed to only involve numeric-ish strings,
>which would be highly unlikely to change sort order across locale
>updates. But maybe there are weirder entries elsewhere in the column?

I can probably provide a dump, but I've to ask. Would that help?

>Anyway, the first thing I'd try is reindexing both tables --- doesn't
>look like they're large enough to make that painful. If that doesn't
>fix it you must have a collation difference. (Asking both systems
>for a sorted dump of their cprd columns could help confirm that.)
>You could probably hack around that, if an OS update isn't feasible,
>by labelling the foreign table's column with some collation you aren't
>using anywhere else in the local database.

I'll try do that tomorrow.

Thanks
Daniel

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