On 4/18/23 21:19, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:52 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> > +1 for getting rid of TRUST_STRXFRM.
>
> +1
>
> The situation is not improving fast, and requires hard work to follow
> on each OS. Clearly, mainstreaming ICU is the way to go. libc
> support will always have niche uses, to be compatible with other
> software on the box, but trusting strxfrm doesn't seem to be on the
> cards any time soon.
I have wondered a few times, given the known issues with strxfrm, how is
the use in selfuncs.c still ok. Has anyone taken a hard look at that?
--
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com