Re: Move defaults toward ICU in 16?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2023-02-09T02:22:34Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2023-02-08 12:16:46 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 18:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Yeah.  I would be resistant to making ICU a required dependency,
> > but it doesn't seem unreasonable to start moving towards it being
> > our default collation support.
>
> Patch attached.

Unfortunately this fails widely on CI, with both compile time and runtime
issues:
https://cirrus-ci.com/build/5116408950947840

Commits

Build ICU support by default.
- fcb21b3acdcb 16.0 landed
Use ICU by default at initdb time.
- 27b62377b47f 16.0 landed
pg_upgrade: copy locale and encoding information to new cluster.
- 9637badd9f92 16.0 landed