leborchuk opened a new pull request, #1363: URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudberry/pull/1363
We inherited this issue from PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL uses glibc to sort strings. In version glibc=2.28, collations broke down badly (in general, there are no guarantees when updating glibc). Changing collations breaks indexes. Similarly, a cluster with different collations also behaves unpredictably. What and when something has changed in glibc can be found on https://github.com/ardentperf/glibc-unicode-sorting Also there is special postgresql-wiki https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes And you tube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6O-V8Jato In short, the issue can be seen through the use of bash: ( echo "1-1"; echo "11" ) | LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 sort gives the different results in ubunru 18.04 and 22.04. There is no way to solve the problem other than by not changing the symbol order. We freeze symbol order and use it instead of glibc. Here the solution https://github.com/postgredients/mdb-locales. In this PR I have added PostgreSQL patch that replaces all glibc locale-related calls with a calls to an external libary. It activates using new configure parameter --with-mdblocales, which is off by default. Using custom locales needs libmdblocales1 package and mdb-locales package with symbol table. Build needs libmdblocales-dev package with headers. Fixing the symbol order is necessary for OS upgrade. For example Ubuntu 22.04 EOL is April 2027, Rocky 8 Active Support ended May 2024, and Security support ends in 2029. We use Movable DataBase Locales in Greenplum 6 and all our PostgreSQL installations (starting with PostgreSQL 12). This patch is adopted patch version from our internal PostgreSQL 14 fork. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
