On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:56 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The culprit turns out to be the precise version of libiconv/libintl > used. There is a slight difference between the versions used in the > 11.13 installer and the 13.4 installer. We need to dig into performance > more (e.g. why does the test take much longer on an NLS enabled build > even when we are using 'initdb --no-locale'?) But I'm pretty confident > now that this is the issue. I've started talks with our installer guys > about fixing it. FTR it's consistent with my own setup. I could finally compile postgres with NLS support and libintl 0.18.1 and I only got a limited overhead: the runtime increases from ~460ms to ~1.5s (and ~2s with lc_messages to something else than C), but that's way better than the ~44s with the current edb version.
