Re: [HACKERS] Re: CREATE COLLATION does not sanitize ICU's BCP 47language tags. Should it? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: CREATE COLLATION does not sanitize ICU's BCP 47language tags. Should it?
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: CREATE COLLATION does not sanitize ICU's BCP 47 language tags. Should it?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 9/30/17 15:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> This suggests to me that arguing about canonicalization is moot so
> far as avoiding reindexing goes: if you change ICU library versions,
> you're screwed and will have to jump through all the reindexing hoops,
> no matter what we do or don't do.

One reason for that is that the collation version also encodes things
like if the internal method for computing sort keys changes.

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