On 8/7/17 14:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 8/7/17 13:51, Tom Lane wrote:
>> At this point I'm thinking that really what we ought to do is deprecate
>> using any pre-53 ICU release for Postgres. It is very clear that those
>> versions are an entirely different beast from 53-and-up, and that they
>> are now abandonware so far as ICU upstream is concerned.
>
> Maybe a note in the documentation to that effect would be useful.
>
> I don't think we should prevent the use of older ICU versions in the
> code. That would probably annoy people who are forced to develop or
> test their applications on older platforms.
I propose the attached patches for fixing the crash. This just disables
the use of the problematic function for versions before ICU 53.
(The 0001 patch is just something I found that was needed while
experimenting with different ICU versions. The 0002 patch is the real fix.)
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