Re: EDB builds Postgres 13 with an obsolete ICU version

Jaime Casanova schrieb am 11.08.2020 um 20:39:
>> As a follow-up to bug #16570 [1] and other previous discussions
>> on the mailing-lists, I'm checking out PG13 beta for Windows
>> from:
>>   https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgresql-early-experience
>> and it ships with the same obsolete ICU 53 that was used
>> for PG 10,11,12.
>> Besides not having the latest Unicode features and fixes, ICU 53
>> ignores the BCP 47 tags syntax in collations used as examples
>> in Postgres documentation, which leads to confusion and
>> false bug reports.
>> The current version is ICU 67.
>>
>
> Sadly, that is managed by EDB and not by the community.
>
> You can try https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgresql-installer-2ndquadrant/
> which uses ICU-62.2, is not the latest but should allow you to follow
> the examples in the documentation.


One of the reasons I prefer the EDB builds is, that they provide a ZIP file without the installer overhead.
Any chance 2ndQuadrant can supply something like that as well?

Thomas