Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values
Date: 2017-08-07 18:42:42
Message-ID: df438697-08b2-008c-eb55-4db730b76337@2ndquadrant.com
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On 8/7/17 13:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> At this point I'm thinking that really what we ought to do is deprecate
> using any pre-53 ICU release for Postgres. It is very clear that those
> versions are an entirely different beast from 53-and-up, and that they
> are now abandonware so far as ICU upstream is concerned.

Maybe a note in the documentation to that effect would be useful.

I don't think we should prevent the use of older ICU versions in the
code. That would probably annoy people who are forced to develop or
test their applications on older platforms.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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