Greg Stark wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > > I think we have concluded that the use of the ICU library is the way we > > are going to accomplish multi-locale support in the future. > > You did? It really seemed like there was one crowd pushing ICU and hardly > anyone else interested in piling a huge library dependency on Postgres. It > seemed like ICU was only really necessary if you wanted some esoteric > functionality that wasn't entirely explained.
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I thought we were willing to require the library for multi-locale builds. > I'm having no trouble handling multi-locale already using the strxfrm > implementation that was posted and refined by several people on the mailing > list. > > Yes it's true that on some OSes it wouldn't be tolerably efficient but on > glibc it's more than tolerable. If better solutions (strxfrm_l) become > available at some point in the future then it would be about as efficient as > it could be on platforms where those features are available. There are some things I think ICU can fix for us like indexing non-C localed columns. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
