Re: Move defaults toward ICU in 16?

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2023-02-17T12:23:12Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2023-02-17 at 14:40 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Separate question: what's the state of the Windows installers provided
> by the community regarding libicu?  Is that embedded in the MSI?

The EDB installer installs a quite old version of the ICU library
for compatibility reasons, as far as I know.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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