Re: [pgsql-packagers] Palle Girgensohn's ICU patch

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jakob Egger <jakob@eggerapps.at> wrote:
> Am 26.11.2014 um 11:05 schrieb Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>:
>
> You may want to bear in mind that postgres.app is on the main PG
> downloads page on the website. If you're patching Postgres to add a
> feature like this, it would become a fork and would have to be moved
> out of the "PostgreSQL Core Distribution" section of the download area
> as we only include "pure" distributions there.
>
>
> I wasn't aware of this. I'll have to bring this up on the Postgres.app
> Github page.
>
> Personally, I don't think that shipping a database with broken text sorting
> is acceptable; but I can't speak on behalf of the other contributors to
> Postgres.app without consulting them first.

Right - but the correct course of action would be to get the problem
fixed in PostgreSQL itself, not to fork the code which could lead to
other problems for users.

-- 
Dave Page
PostgreSQL Core Team
http://www.postgresql.org/