Re: EDB builds Postgres 13 with an obsolete ICU version

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 02:58:30PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:42 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> That would require fairly large changes to the installer to allow it to
> login to the database server (whether that would work would be dependent on
> how pg_hba.conf is configured), and also assumes that the ICU ABI hasn't
> changed between releases. It would also require some hacky renaming of
> DLLs, as they have the version number in them.
>
> I assumed it had code for that stuff already. Mainly because I assumed it
> supported doing pg_upgrade, which requires similar things no?

While pg_upgrade requires having the old and new cluster software in
place, I don't think it helps allowing different ICU versions for each
cluster. I guess you can argue that if you know the user is _not_ going
to be using pg_upgrade, then a new ICU version should be used for the
new cluster.

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