Re: Collation versioning

On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 23:14 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Thomas Munro
> > for all I know, "en" variants might change
> > independently (I doubt it in practice, but in theory it's wrong).
> 
> Long before the glibc 2.28 incident, the same collation change
> had already happened twice, namely between RedHat 5 -> 6 -> 7, for
> de_DE.UTF-8 only. de_AT.UTF-8 and all other locales were unaffected.
> 
> At the time I didn't connect the dots to check if Debian was affected
> as well, but of course later testing revealed it was since it was a
> change in glibc.

Yes, this is a persistent pain; I had several customers suffering from
these issues too.

I wish
https://postgr.es/m/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a%402ndquadrant.com
hade made it into core.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe