Re: [HACKERS] CREATE COLLATION definitional questions for ICU - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] CREATE COLLATION definitional questions for ICU
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In response to [HACKERS] CREATE COLLATION definitional questions for ICU  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] CREATE COLLATION definitional questions for ICU  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 6/25/17 11:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> * Should not the FROM code path copy the old collation's version?
> It seems a little bit weird that "cloning" a collation takes the
> liberty of installing a new version.

I think this is working correctly.  Specifying the version explicitly is
really only useful for pg_upgrade, because it needs to reproduce the
state that is on disk.  When you create a new collation, you want to
work with the collation version that the currently running software
provides.

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