On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Greg Stark <st...@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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
