Re: Draft release notes for next week's releases

On Mar 28, 2016 09:44, "Peter Geoghegan" <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Probably the most discussion-worthy item is whether we can say
> > anything more about the strxfrm mess. Should we make a wiki
> > page about that and have the release note item link to it?
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> I think that there is an argument against doing so, which is that
> right now, all we have to offer on that are weasel words. However, I'm
> still in favor of a Wiki page, because I would not be at all surprised
> if our understanding of this problem evolved, and we were able to
> offer better answers in several weeks. Realistically, it will probably
> take at least that long before affected users even start to think
> about this.

Should we start thinking about ICU ? I compare Postgres with ICU and
without and found 27x improvement in btree index creation for russian
strings. This includes effect of abbreviated keys and ICU itself. Also,
we'll get system independent locale.
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