Re: postgresql-icu patch status

Seems discussion has now started on how to move this forward so this
patch is being kept for the next commit-fest.

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Ireneusz Pluta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there was postgresql-icu patch for proper collation of UTF8 character
> set, published here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~girgen/postgresql-icu/. I have been using
> it with 8.1 and it worked fine for me. Now I am migrating to 8.2, but,
> sadly, there is no patch available this version.
>
> Does anybody know what happened to the development of this? Isn't
> commiter interested, or things got now more complicated in the area
> affected by this patch?
>
> I am not a PostgreSQL developer, but having some minor C and CVS
> experience I migth try to make a patch based on the last available for
> 8.1.4 and merging the changes into the last release, in a more or less
> dummy way. But before I even try, it would be nice to hear something
> from here - were there major changes in the source code affected by
> the icu patch between 8.1.4 and 8.2.4, or were there any changes in
> other areas that might affect the patch at all?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ireneusz Pluta
>
>
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