On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:57:04PM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: > Uhm, an ICU source tree is over 40 *megabytes*. That's almost as much as the > rest of Postgres itself and that doesn't even include documentation. Even if > you exclude the data and regression tests you're still talking about depending > on the portability and correctness of over 10 megabytes of new code.
I don't understand this argument. No-one asked what size the LDAP libraries were when we added support for them. No-one cares that libssl/libcrypto is as large as glibc. What size the libraries are that postgresql uses is somewhat irrelevent. It's not like we're forcing people to install them. > Neither is ICU available on most platforms. In any case we only need strcoll_l > as a performance optimization, the regular interface works, it's just slow. Can you point me to a common platform where postgresql runs and ICU doesn't? http://dev.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/icu/readme.html?rev=HEAD#HowToBuildSupported The only one I can see in the buildfarm that isn't mentioned is Unixware. > Well equal is part of collation at least in the sense you mean. What it > doesn't help with is things like tolower or regexp matching. These are the > things that I would suggest you usually want to be doing on the client because > SQL's string manipulation facilities are so poor compared to most client > languages. If I specify a collation where case and accents are ignored, then GROUP BY should ignore them too, and regexps should honour that. Moving all this to the client doesn't seem like a good move at all. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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