On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:19:45PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-02-25 15:59:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > On 2015-02-25 12:08:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> The most obvious fix is to change "provider" to a NAME column.
> >
> > > Yea. I'm not sure why that wasn't done initially. I can't really see the
> > > length be an issue. How about we add an error check enforcing ascii,
> > > that'll work in the back branches?
> >
> > Nope, that won't help much at all. C vs en_US for instance is different
> > sort orders even with all-ASCII data.
>
> Ick, yes. The restriction to a charset that's encodable in all server
> encodings should be there additionally, but it's not sufficient :(
>
> > Basically you're screwed if you've got different collations in different
> > databases and you put anything into pg_shseclabel ...
>
> Hrmpf.
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