Re: Patch for collation using ICU

From: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "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 12:26:36
Message-ID: 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE50A9311@rodrick.geeknet.com.au
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> 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.

Ermm,. Don't forget to remove the current charset conversions and locale
support before making your size estimation.

>
> 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.
>
> //Magnus
>
>

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