| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: check_strxfrm_bug() |
| Date: | 2023-04-19 14:40:11 |
| Message-ID: | a5554173-1b12-7035-7fc9-72837c85a1ac@joeconway.com |
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On 4/18/23 21:19, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:52 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> > +1 for getting rid of TRUST_STRXFRM.
>
> +1
>
> The situation is not improving fast, and requires hard work to follow
> on each OS. Clearly, mainstreaming ICU is the way to go. libc
> support will always have niche uses, to be compatible with other
> software on the box, but trusting strxfrm doesn't seem to be on the
> cards any time soon.
I have wondered a few times, given the known issues with strxfrm, how is
the use in selfuncs.c still ok. Has anyone taken a hard look at that?
--
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
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