On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 01:07:49PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 07:39 -0700, Noah Misch wrote: > > Short-term, we should remedy the step backward that pg_c_utf8 has taken: > > https://postgr.es/m/20240718233908.52.nmi...@google.com > > https://postgr.es/m/486d71991a3f80ec1c47e1bd7931e2ef3627b6b3.ca...@cybertec.at > > Obviously I disagree that we've taken a step backwards.
Yes. > Can you articulate the principle by which all of the other problems > with IMMUTABLE are just fine, but updates to Unicode are intolerable, > and only for PG_C_UTF8? No, because I don't think all the other problems with IMMUTABLE are just fine. The two messages linked cover the comparisons I do consider important, especially the comparison between pg_c_utf8 and packager-frozen ICU.
