Re: [18] Policy on IMMUTABLE functions and Unicode updates

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, 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: 2024-07-24 04:42:26
Message-ID: cf51cfa1-5fce-4f9b-acb4-81f517ba05b1@eisentraut.org
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On 24.07.24 03:37, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 4:36 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>> The sorting isn't the problem. We have a versioning mechanism for
>> collations. What we do with the version information is clearly not
>> perfect yet, but the mechanism exists and you can hack together queries
>> that answer the question, did anything change here that would affect my
>> indexes. And you could build more tooling around that and so on.
>
> In my experience, sorting is, overwhelmingly, the problem. What people
> complain about is that they do an upgrade - of PG or some OS package -
> and then their indexes are broken. Or their partition bounds are
> broken.

Fair enough. My argument was, that topic is distinct from the topic of
this thread.

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