glibc

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Collation Torture Test versus Debian

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ May 22, 2025 ⋅ Leave a comment

Collation torture test results are finally finished and uploaded for Debian. https://github.com/ardentperf/glibc-unicode-sorting The test did not pick up any changes in en_US sort order for either Bullseye or Bookworm 🎉️ Buster has glibc 2.28 so it shows lots of changes – as expected. The postgres wiki had claimed that Jessie(8) to Stretch(9) upgrades were safe. … Continue reading →

Did Postgres Lose My Data?

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ March 26, 2023 ⋅ 1 Comment

Hello, let me introduce myself. Today, we’ll pretend that I’m a linguistics researcher. I don’t know much about databases, but I do know a lot about the Balti language of northern Pakistan. That’s why I’m excited about my current translation project. The most interesting part of this translation project is that I’m doing some computer-driven … Continue reading →