Re: [HACKERS] Can ICU be used for a database's default sort order?

> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 9:08 PM Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
>
> > As a side note, I'm a bit confused, who is the original author of
> > the proposed patch? If it's Marina, why she isn't involved in the
> > discussion or even mentioned in the patch itself?
>
> The original patch [1] starts with these commit metadata:
>
> From e1cb130f550952d9c9c2d9ad1c52e60699a2c968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marina Polyakova <m(dot)polyakova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 18:57:25 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] ICU as default collation provider
> ... commit message...
>
> but as you note, Marina did not intervene in the discussion nor
> submitted it herself, so this patch misses someone to play the
> role of the author in the CF process.

Yes, I've missed that, thank you. But there was no references like that in the
last rebased version.

> There were reviews: Andrey Borodin raised issues with the patch in
> [2], I spent some time trying it and asked questions about the design
> in [3], but no one followed up on them within the next months.
>
> About the status of the patch, to me it should be RWF. It's been
> moved to the next CF several times with no progress besides rebases.

Let me disagree. Judging from the commentaries in this discussion it could be
significant and useful feature, and the author is trying to keep this patch
uptodate. The lack of reviews could be due other reasons than desirability of
the patch (as well as as for many other interesting proposals in hackers).