Re: Question about using ICU

2020-09-28 Thread Paul Förster
Hi Laurenz, > On 28. Sep, 2020, at 13:13, Laurenz Albe wrote: >> >> but then I'd have to do a reindex anyway, right? My goal was to avoid the >> reindex altogether, if possible. > > That couldn't be avoided anyway if you change the collation no matter > if you do it on the database or on the c

Re: Question about using ICU

2020-09-28 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 11:45 +0200, Paul Förster wrote: > > Your best bet is to manually change the definition of all columns to use > > the new collation. > > psql's \gexec may help. > > but then I'd have to do a reindex anyway, right? My goal was to avoid the > reindex altogether, if possible.

Re: Question about using ICU

2020-09-28 Thread Paul Förster
Hi Laurenz, > On 28. Sep, 2020, at 11:04, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > There have been efforts to add this functionality: > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a%402ndquadrant.com > but it didn't get done. seems to be a rather complex thing according to the

Re: Question about using ICU

2020-09-28 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 10:02 +0200, Paul Förster wrote: > I have a general question about the use of ICU. Currently, we have PostgreSQL > compiled > from source (Linux) without ICU support. All database clusters and databases > are UTF8 > and of course relying on glibc. > > With the sooner or l