Re: EDB builds Postgres 13 with an obsolete ICU version

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 13:45, Thomas Kellerer <shammat(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Jaime Casanova schrieb am 11.08.2020 um 20:39:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> One of the reasons I prefer the EDB builds is, that they provide a ZIP file without the installer overhead.
> Any chance 2ndQuadrant can supply something like that as well?
>

i don't think so, an unattended install mode is the closest

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