Re: Slaves show different results for query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Musall Maik
Subject Re: Slaves show different results for query
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Msg-id 4E49B536-3E95-4EB2-9614-F4EE2C9B4EF4@musall.de
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In response to Re: Slaves show different results for query  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi Tom,

that's very useful information. Very cool to get such results so quickly here.

Thanks
Maik


> Am 20.05.2015 um 16:05 schrieb Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>
> Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> writes:
>> The reason I ask is that the machine you are having problems with has OS
>> X. Over the years I have seen quite a few reports on this list of OS X
>> locale/encoding issues.
>
> Yes.  Here's the problem: OS X UTF8 locales (other than C) don't sort the
> same as UTF8 locales on Linux.  Because of this, the index created by the
> master is effectively corrupt from the standpoint of the OS X slave; it's
> not in the correct sort order.  It might sometimes find the right results
> anyway, but often not.
>
> You might be able to get away with the described configuration if you
> recreate the database using C locale, but personally I wouldn't risk it.
> Masters and slaves in a WAL-shipping replication configuration should be
> on substantially identical platforms, else you're just asking for trouble.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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