Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2015-02-25 12:08:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The most obvious fix is to change "provider" to a NAME column.
> Yea. I'm not sure why that wasn't done initially. I can't really see the
> length be an issue. How about we add an error check enforcing ascii,
> that'll work in the back branches?
Nope, that won't help much at all. C vs en_US for instance is different
sort orders even with all-ASCII data.
Basically you're screwed if you've got different collations in different
databases and you put anything into pg_shseclabel ...
regards, tom lane