Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0
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Msg-id 2b546d5babc470f64deac43810785ee44d884440.camel@j-davis.com
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In response to Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0  (Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>)
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On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 23:54 -0700, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> From my perspective, the whole point of the builtin collation was to
> one option that avoids these problems that come with updating both
> ICU
> and glibc.
>
> So I guess the main point of the builtin provider just that it's
> faster
> than ICU?

It doesn't break primary keys.

Also, it's stable within a major version, we can document and test its
behavior, it solves 99% of the upgrade problem, and what problems
remains are much more manageable.

And yes, collation is way, way faster than ICU.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis




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