Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values
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Msg-id 32710.1502127566@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE andwork_mem values  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE andwork_mem values  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think we'd be well advised to filter the set of installed-by-default
>> collations rather strongly, in hope of avoiding such problems.  For
>> starters, do we really need the keyword variants at all?  People who
>> know what those are for can create their own collations, and take
>> their own risks of the feature disappearing in later ICU releases.

> Actually, I think I was wrong about it being possible to create the
> collations after the fact. CREATE COLLATION simply doesn't support
> that. This surprised me.

Surely that's a bug?
        regards, tom lane


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