On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Probably the most discussion-worthy item is whether we can say > > anything more about the strxfrm mess. Should we make a wiki > > page about that and have the release note item link to it? > > I think that there is an argument against doing so, which is that > right now, all we have to offer on that are weasel words. However, I'm > still in favor of a Wiki page, because I would not be at all surprised > if our understanding of this problem evolved, and we were able to > offer better answers in several weeks. Realistically, it will probably > take at least that long before affected users even start to think > about this. > One question to debate is whether placing a list of "known" (collated from the program runs lots of people performed) would do more harm than good. Personally I'd rather see a list of known failures and evaluate my situation objectively (i.e., large index but no reported problem on my combination of locale and platform). I understand that a lack of evidence is not proof that I am unaffected at this stage in the game. Having something I can execute on my server to try and verify behavior - irrespective of the correctness of the indexes themselves - would be welcomed. David J.
