| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
| Cc: | John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Patch for collation using ICU |
| Date: | 2005-05-08 19:03:46 |
| Message-ID: | 427E6292.60408@dunslane.net |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
>The source for ICU 3.2 is 9.8Mb in .tar.gz. PostgreSQL 8.0.2 is 13.2.
>That means the size of the distribution would almost *double* if we
>bundled ICU.
>
>It's probably fine bundling it in the binary distributions (at least
>we'd probably do it on win32, since not many ppl will have it already
>there), but bundling the source seems a bit excessive to me.
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I'm also mildly curious to know what effect using ICU will have on
memory consumption. Has anyone looked? My suspicion was aroused by this
library that it installed on my FC3 box:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9777876 Jan 1 20:18 /usr/lib/libicudata.so.32.0
cheers
andrew
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