Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values

On 8/9/17 20:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

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