Re: [pgsql-packagers] Palle Girgensohn's ICU patch

Jakob Egger <jakob@eggerapps.at>

From: Jakob Egger <jakob@eggerapps.at>

To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>

Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, "pgsql-packagers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-packagers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Bussmann Tobias <tobias.bussmann@scnat.ch>

Date: 2014-11-26T10:13:43Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Am 26.11.2014 um 11:05 schrieb Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>:
> You may want to bear in mind that postgres.app is on the main PG
> downloads page on the website. If you're patching Postgres to add a
> feature like this, it would become a fork and would have to be moved
> out of the "PostgreSQL Core Distribution" section of the download area
> as we only include "pure" distributions there.

I wasn't aware of this. I'll have to bring this up on the Postgres.app Github page.

Personally, I don't think that shipping a database with broken text sorting is acceptable; but I can't speak on behalf of the other contributors to Postgres.app without consulting them first.