Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE andwork_mem values - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE andwork_mem values
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Msg-id df438697-08b2-008c-eb55-4db730b76337@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE andwork_mem values
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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/
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