On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 23:14 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Thomas Munro > > for all I know, "en" variants might change > > independently (I doubt it in practice, but in theory it's wrong). > > Long before the glibc 2.28 incident, the same collation change > had already happened twice, namely between RedHat 5 -> 6 -> 7, for > de_DE.UTF-8 only. de_AT.UTF-8 and all other locales were unaffected. > > At the time I didn't connect the dots to check if Debian was affected > as well, but of course later testing revealed it was since it was a > change in glibc.
Yes, this is a persistent pain; I had several customers suffering from these issues too. I wish https://postgr.es/m/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a%402ndquadrant.com hade made it into core. Yours, Laurenz Albe