Hi,
On 2021-04-18 11:29:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not sure that an error in this direction is all that much more
> problematic than the other direction. If it's okay to claim that
> indexes need to be rebuilt when they don't really, then we could just
> drop this entire overcomplicated infrastructure and report that all
> indexes need to be rebuilt after any collation version change.
That doesn't ring true to me. There's a huge difference between needing
to rebuild all indexes, especially primary key indexes which often are
over int8 etc, and unnecessarily needing to rebuild indexes doing
comparatively rare things.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
