Re: Patch for collation using ICU - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From John Hansen
Subject Re: Patch for collation using ICU
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Msg-id 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE50A9311@rodrick.geeknet.com.au
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In response to Patch for collation using ICU  (Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>)
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> The source for ICU 3.2 is 9.8Mb in .tar.gz. PostgreSQL 8.0.2 is 13.2.
> That means the size of the distribution would almost *double*
> if we bundled ICU.

Ermm,. Don't forget to remove the current charset conversions and locale
support before making your size estimation.

>
> It's probably fine bundling it in the binary distributions
> (at least we'd probably do it on win32, since not many ppl
> will have it already there), but bundling the source seems a
> bit excessive to me.
>
> //Magnus
>
>


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