Re: Collation versioning

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Collation versioning
Date: 2018-09-27 21:19:26
Message-ID: b4ae8ef0-3a32-0f9a-576b-8f53ddbdc56d@2ndquadrant.com
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On 16/09/2018 10:19, Thomas Munro wrote:
> 4. After creating a new database, update that row as appropriate in
> the new database (!). Or find some other way to write a new table out
> and switch it around, or something like that. That is, if you say
> CREATE DATABASE foo LC_COLLATE = 'xx_XX', COLLATION_PROVIDER = libc
> then those values somehow get written into the default pg_collation
> row in the *new* database (so at that point it's not a simple copy of
> the template database).

I've been hatching this exact scheme since the very beginning, even
thinking about using the background session functionality to do this.
It would solve a lot of problems, but there is the question of exactly
how to do that "(!)" part.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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