On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:52:45AM +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > > >The hole in that argument is the assumption that there *is* a freely > >available library that can be used (where freely == BSD license). > >We wouldn't be having this discussion if we knew of one. > > I see this discussion as another reason to use ICU, I mean complete > rewrite of locale handling to use ICU on all platforms. I know it's big > project but it's doable for 8.2 and it would virtually solve all locale > problems and could be base for new unicode/locale features. I am not > sure if this is the way postgres wants to go tho (having dependency on > such a big and uncommon library).
Maybe not so uncommon... % ldd /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php: ... -lresolv.1 => /usr/lib/libresolv.so.1 -lpq.4 => /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.4 -lintl.0 => /usr/lib/libintl.so.0 -licudata.34 => /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.34 -licuuc.34 => /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so.34 -licui18n.34 => /usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.34 -licuio.34 => /usr/local/lib/libicuio.so.34 ... Cheers, Patrick ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster