On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jakob Egger <
jakob@eggerapps.at> wrote:
Am 26.11.2014 um 11:05 schrieb Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>:
You may want to bear in mind that postgres.app is on the main PG
downloads page on the website. If you're patching Postgres to add a
feature like this, it would become a fork and would have to be moved
out of the "PostgreSQL Core Distribution" section of the download area
as we only include "pure" distributions there.
I wasn't aware of this. I'll have to bring this up on the Postgres.app
Github page.
Personally, I don't think that shipping a database with broken text sorting
is acceptable; but I can't speak on behalf of the other contributors to
Postgres.app without consulting them first.
Right - but the correct course of action would be to get the problem
fixed in PostgreSQL itself, not to fork the code which could lead to
other problems for users.
Agreed. Since this isn't a priority for Palle I'll have a look at the patch to see if I can extend it to make it suitable for submitting it, but since I have never contributed source to PostgreSQL I don't know yet if I can handle it.
I've opened an issue on Github to discuss what to do about Postgres.app and the upcoming 9.4 release:
Best regards,
Jakob
