Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:57:38PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> Then there's the concern that ICU is a *huge* dependency. ICU is
> itself larger than the entire Postgres install. It's a big burden on
> users to have to install and configure a second collation library in
> addition to the system library and a complete non-starter for embedded
> systems or low-memory systems.

$ apt-cache show libicu52|grep Installed-Size
Installed-Size: 27283

That's 27MB or less than 2 WAL files. Or about 4 times the template
database, or which 3 are created during install and the first user
database will be a fourth.

The installed size of Postgres is 11MB not including any of the
libraries it already depends on.

Yes, it's not a small library but lets not get carried away.

And if it's optional then low memory systems can configure it out.

As for configuration, ICU doesn't require configuration just like glibc
doesn't require configuration.

Mvg,
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