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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values
Date: 2017-08-07 22:07:18
Message-ID: 865800ad-9e71-206a-5772-aa15b8470c73@2ndquadrant.com
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On 8/7/17 16:21, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Even MongoDB has ICU support these days. They specifically document
> which collations are supported. It's just the same for DB2, and other
> systems that build their collations on ICU. Users do not "use the ICU
> collations" on these other systems. They simply use the collations
> that are available, choosing from a list in the documentation, or
> possibly create their own collations with their own customization.

We cannot know what versions of ICU or a C library users would build
PostgreSQL with, so I don't see how we can provide a definite list of
available locales, other than at run time like we do now.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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