Re: PG 9.6.20 -- query misbehaves in replica

On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 00:59 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 12:17 AM Ernesto Hernández-Novich <
> emhnemhn@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > After updating from 9.6.19 to 9.6.20, we noticed the query was not
> > working on D.
[...]
> > Looks like a the 9.6.20 over Debian 10 is the culprit, but I have
> > nothing else to work on.
> 
> These issues are almost certainly because of the glibc locale changes
> between Debian 9 and Debian 10, and not because of the PostgreSQL
> upgrade.
>
> If you have master and standby on different glibc versions (so debian
> 9 vs 10), all text based indexes can behave differently. All the
> nodes must run the same version for this to work. So in this
> scenario, you need to reinstall B and D with debian 9, or you need to
> upgrade your other nodes to debian 10 (and if you do that, then you
> have to reindex the master node once it has been upgraded).

I agree on the locale matching and will try your suggestion.

I must say the Debian 10 machines were working just fine with PG 9.6.19
for over two months or so. We noticed the issue *just* this week after
upgrading from 9.6.19 onto 9.6.20.

Regards,
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