Re: Collation version tracking for macOS

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider(at)ardentperf(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Collation version tracking for macOS
Date: 2022-06-14 01:06:01
Message-ID: CAH2-WzkN2Bf0uiaPKzGtqwUPiJ-x1dtUP7m8NaqqJzqR34=ahw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:41 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It'd clearly be a terrible idea for us to try to use any of that, and
> Mac users should be very happy with the new support for ICU as DB
> default.

This suggests something that I already suspected: nobody particularly
expects the system lib C to be authoritative for the OS as a whole, in
the way that Postgres supposes. At least in the case of Mac OS, which
is after all purely a desktop operating system.

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Peter Geoghegan

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