On 9 September 2016 at 00:19, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 9/8/16 11:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> This is a problem, if ICU won't guarantee cross-version compatibility, >> because it destroys the argument that moving to ICU would offer us >> collation behavior stability. > > It would offer a significant upgrade over the current situation. > > First, it offers stability inside the same version. Whereas glibc might > change a collation in a minor upgrade, ICU won't do that. And the > postgres binary is bound to a major version of ICU by the soname (which > changes with every major release). So this would avoid the situation > that a simple OS update could break collations.
It also lets *users* and PostgreSQL-specific distributors bundle ICU and get stable collations. We can't exactly bundle glibc. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
