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Re: Move defaults toward ICU in 16?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-02-16T16:15:39Z
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Hi,

On 2023-02-16 15:05:10 +0530, Robert Haas wrote:
> The fact that we can't use ICU on Windows, though, weakens this
> argument a lot. In my experience, we have a lot of Windows users, and
> they're not any happier with the operating system collations than
> Linux users. Possibly less so.

Why can't you use ICU on windows? It works today, afaict?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Build ICU support by default.

  2. Use ICU by default at initdb time.

  3. pg_upgrade: copy locale and encoding information to new cluster.