Re: [pgsql-packagers] Palle Girgensohn's ICU patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: [pgsql-packagers] Palle Girgensohn's ICU patch
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Msg-id CAM3SWZSOysy6ufQzMFKJvw8m=9KPYDA3kBe=ZsWgDUHyRRAnuQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [pgsql-packagers] Palle Girgensohn's ICU patch  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: [pgsql-packagers] Palle Girgensohn's ICU patch  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> wrote:
> 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.

Doesn't the existing FreeBSD link go to the ports collection? And
doesn't the PostgreSQL package automatically use this very ICU patch?

It seems like the FreeBSD people were working around their poor OS
locale support here. While I think we should officially adopt ICU, it
seems a little unfair to call what they've done a fork.
-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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