Re: check_strxfrm_bug()

On 4/19/23 9:34 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 2:31 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> To be clear, is the proposal to remove both "check_strxfrm_bug" and
>> "TRUST_STRXFRM"?
>>
>> Given a bunch of folks who have expertise in this area of code all agree
>> with removing the above as part of the collation cleanups targeted for
>> v16, I'm inclined to agree. I don't really see the need for an explicit
>> RMT action, but based on the consensus this seems OK to add as an open item.
> 
> Thanks all.  I went ahead and removed check_strxfrm_bug().

Thanks! For housekeeping, I put this into "Open Items" and marked it as 
resolved.

> I could write a patch to remove the libc strxfrm support, but since
> Jeff recently wrote new code in 16 to abstract that stuff, he might
> prefer to look at it?

I believe we'd be qualifying this as an open item too? If so, let's add it.

Thanks,

Jonathan