| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [18] Policy on IMMUTABLE functions and Unicode updates |
| Date: | 2024-07-23 07:11:42 |
| Message-ID: | b7a7f76109d4d15e401c0dd3ec5f0cfd52b4c7df.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 13:55 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> > I understand the difficulty (madness) of discussing every Unicode
> > change. If that's unworkable, my preference would be to stick with some
> > Unicode version and never modify it, ever.
>
> I think that's a completely non-viable way forward. Even if everyone
> here voted in favor of that, five years from now there will be someone
> who shows up to say "I can't use your crappy software because the
> Unicode tables haven't been updated in five years, here's a patch!".
> And, like, what are we going to do? Still keeping shipping the 2024
> version of Unicode four hundred years from now, assuming humanity and
> civilization and PostgreSQL are still around then? Holding something
> still "forever" is just never going to work.
I hear you. It would be interesting to know what other RDBMS do here.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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