Re: EDB builds Postgres 13 with an obsolete ICU version

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:04 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 08:56:06PM +0200, Daniel Verite wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As a follow-up to bug #16570 [1] and other previous discussions
> > on the mailing-lists, I'm checking out PG13 beta for Windows
> > from:
> > https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgresql-early-experience
> > and it ships with the same obsolete ICU 53 that was used
> > for PG 10,11,12.
> > Besides not having the latest Unicode features and fixes, ICU 53
> > ignores the BCP 47 tags syntax in collations used as examples
> > in Postgres documentation, which leads to confusion and
> > false bug reports.
> > The current version is ICU 67.
> >
> > I don't see where the suggestion to upgrade it before the
> > next PG release should be addressed but maybe some people on
> > this list do know or have the leverage to make it happen?
>
> Well, you can ask EDB about this, but perhaps the have kept the same ICU
> version so indexes will not need to be reindexed.
>

Correct - updating ICU would mean a reindex is required following any
upgrade, major or minor.

I would really like to find an acceptable solution to this however as it
really would be good to be able to update ICU.

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