Re: (collation) Building postgresql on FreeBSD, the pros and cons of icu

[Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>On Friday, October 25, 2013 3:12 PM, Achilleas Mantzios <achill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 23/10/2013 16:44, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> By default, FreeBSD ports does not build postgresql with icu (http://www.icu-project.org/).
>> Postgres does not have any option to use ICU, default or otherwise.
>> Nor is it likely to happen in future, judging from previous discussions
>> of the idea.
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>Hi Tom, Patrick
>FreeBSD indeed has a config option to build with ICU, just
># /usr/ports/databases/postgresql93-server
># make config
>and you will be able to see this.
>The relevant README is here : http://people.freebsd.org/~girgen/postgresql-icu/README.html
>Patrick also you may build postgresql by hand and apply the patch manually from : /usr/ports/databases/postgresql93-server
>Although being in a non-english speaking company, i have not tried this neither at work or at home.
>Hope that helps.
>

Hi Achilleas,

Sorry I have hit to send button too fast in the last mail...

Yes, I know FreeBSD has a specific patch to use ICU on Postgresql.
And officially Postgresql, do not come with ICU patch natively.

Thanks.

Patrick