Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0

On 20.01.25 22:39, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-11-15 at 17:09 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The practice of regularly updating the Unicode files is older than
>> the
>> builtin collation provider.  It is similar to updating the time zone
>> files, the encoding conversion files, the snowball files, etc.  We
>> need
>> to move all of these things forward to keep up with the aspects of
>> the
>> real world that this data reflects.
>
> Should we consider bundling multiple versions of the generated tables
> (header files) along with Postgres?

I wouldn't have a problem with that.

> That would enable a compile-time option to build with an older version
> of Unicode if you want, solving the packager concern that Noah raised.
> It would also make it easier for people to coordinate the Postgres
> version of Unicode and the ICU version of Unicode.

But I don't think it would be a compile-time decision. I think it would
be a run-time selection, similar to the theorized multiple-ICU-versions
feature. (Those two features might even go together, since a given ICU
version also sort of assumes a given Unicode version.)