Re: EDB builds Postgres 13 with an obsolete ICU version

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 13:56, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> 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.
>

Hi,

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.

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