Do we want to enable a ICU build option in 8.2?
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:55:18AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Fine for you, not so fine for other people with different concerns.
> >
> > I'm not unsympathetic to your general point, but black-and-white
> > arguments won't get far in this discussion. It's all about tradeoffs
> > ... it's most definitely not about one-size-fits-all.
>
> What I find most confusing is that the patch for adding ICU to postgres
> (using a configure switch) has been around for a while, at one point it
> was even in the queue for 8.2:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-08/msg00309.php
>
> It's vanished from there, not sure why. Even so, we still get regular
> requests for it. Presumably it was removed here:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-03/msg00233.php
>
> Given the patch does nothing if you don't enable it, I'm not quite sure
> what the downsides would be...
>
> 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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