On 9/8/16 11:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > This is a problem, if ICU won't guarantee cross-version compatibility, > because it destroys the argument that moving to ICU would offer us > collation behavior stability.
It would offer a significant upgrade over the current situation. First, it offers stability inside the same version. Whereas glibc might change a collation in a minor upgrade, ICU won't do that. And the postgres binary is bound to a major version of ICU by the soname (which changes with every major release). So this would avoid the situation that a simple OS update could break collations. Second, it offers a way to detect that something has changed. With glibc, you don't know anything unless you read the source diffs. With ICU, you can compare the collation version before and after and at least tell the user that they need to refresh indexes or whatever. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
