libicu global support

Started by Jakub Jedelskyalmost 5 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Jakub Jedelsky
jakub.jedelsky@gooddata.com

Hi,

during the adoption of Centos 8 on our servers we ran into problems with
Postgresql (13.3), glibc (delivered by the Centos) and performance of
sorting. Because of that we're planning to use the ICU collations
(en-x-icu), but the current implementation is quite complicated to adopt as
there isn't support of global setup per cluster (initdb) nor creating of
database.

So, my silly question: is there any chance a work can be done on it with a
new version anytime soon?

There were already some discussions around some time ago:
/messages/by-id/3366.1498183854@sss.pgh.pa.us
/messages/by-id/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a@2ndquadrant.com

Thank you,

- jj

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Jakub Jedelsky (#1)
Re: libicu global support

On 11.07.21 23:52, Jakub Jedelsky wrote:

during the adoption of Centos 8 on our servers we ran into problems with
Postgresql (13.3), glibc (delivered by the Centos) and performance of
sorting. Because of that we're planning to use the ICU collations
(en-x-icu), but the current implementation is quite complicated to adopt
as there isn't support of global setup per cluster (initdb) nor creating
of database.

So, my silly question: is there any chance a work can be done on it with
a new version anytime soon?

It's definitely high on various developers' wishlists, but I am not
aware of any activity on it right now.