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

On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 13:55 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.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