Re: ICU Collations and Collation Updates

From: Paul Foerster <paul(dot)foerster(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Michael Engelke <thomas(dot)engelke(at)posteo(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ICU Collations and Collation Updates
Date: 2025-04-14 17:53:32
Message-ID: C40237F7-4AF0-4797-986E-21BC8AC1915C@gmail.com
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Hi Laurenz,

> On 14 Apr 2025, at 19:36, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
> You cannot "bake in into" PostgreSQL, but you can grab the ICU source,
> install it in /usr/local or similar and build PostgreSQL against that.
> You will have to fiddle with CFLAGS and LDFLAGS so that the build process
> uses the C headers and libraries from your build of the ICU library.

I think I'm going to look into this. I'm not a developer, so I'll probably fail. Building PostgreSQL from source is easy and well documented. I have scripted this. But other than that, I'll probably fail. 🤣 Still worth a try, though.

Thanks,
Paul

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