On 21.01.25 02:06, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
FWIW, after adding ICU support I personally don't think there's a pressing need to continue updating the tables anymore.
That appears to ignore what these tables are actually used for. They are used for Unicode normalization, which is used by SCRAM. So in a slightly hyperbolic sense, keeping these tables updated is security-relevant. They are also used by psql to determine character width and format output correctly.
Building a collation provider on this came much later. It was possibly a mistake how that was done.