I find it hard to believe the original premise of this thread. We knew there were some problems with OSX and FreeBSD but surely they can't be completely broken? What happens if you run "ls" with your locale set to something like fr_FR.UTF8 ? Does Apple not sell Macs in countries other than the US?
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. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
