>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> The conversion itself is dependent on changeable catalog Tom> entries, ie, pg_conversion. So "stable" seems the appropriate Tom> marking to me. >> That sounds like a bit of a stretch to me... we treat lots of >> stuff as immutable which is actually easier to change than >> pg_conversion entries (OS locale definitions for example). Tom> Um ... locale *is* fixed within a given database, or at least Tom> LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE are. If you see cases where we have Tom> this wrong, they may need to be revisited. The value of LC_CTYPE etc. is fixed, but the meaning that the OS assigns to that value can be changed (arguably more easily than changing pg_conversion, now that we don't allow builtin conversion funcs to be used for conversions other than the one they are coded for). Of course, changing the definition of a locale will break everything until you reindex, etc., but we put up with that because the alternatives are clearly silly. -- Andrew. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
