Re: BUG #13440: unaccent does not remove all diacritics

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Gradek <mike(at)busbud(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #13440: unaccent does not remove all diacritics
Date: 2015-06-18 20:38:18
Message-ID: 20150618203818.GD29350@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-06-18 16:36:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2015-06-18 16:30:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> This is the same situation as any change whatsoever to tsearch
> >> dictionaries. The party line on that is that it usually doesn't
> >> matter much, and if it does you can rebuild your indexes.
>
> > I think that's an acceptable answer if the user changes their
> > dictionary, but if we do it for them it's different.
>
> So you're arguing that unaccent.rules is forever frozen, no matter whether
> it's obviously broken or not?

I think it's perfectly sensible to update the rules in master (even if
that has consequences for pg_upgraded databases). I'm just doubtful
about the merits of backpatching changes like this. But I'm not going to
fight hard/any further...

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