On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> There were a number of problems with using ICU including the large
> dependency and the limitations of the iterator model but the main
> issue was that it's fundamentally a choice between being consistent
> with every other application on your system and being consistent with
> other Postgres databases running on other OSes. Most people run
> multiple applications on one OS, not many databases on many OSes on
> their own with no other applications. If Postgres used ICU then its
> output would be inconsistent with things like "sort" or "ls" or your
> application programming language's comparison operators.
Unless your application programming language is written in Java, as many are.
--
Peter Geoghegan
