Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> It's still important to have libc support as an option, though,
> because it's a totally reasonable thing to want sort order to agree
> with the "sort" command on the same host, and you are willing to deal
> with all the complexities that we're trying to escape.
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.
regards, tom lane