From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ICU 54 and earlier are too dangerous
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:26:17 -0400
Message-ID: <2453427.1678753577@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> In ICU 54 and earlier, if ucol_open() is unable to find a matching
> locale, it will fall back to the *environment*.
That's not great, but ...
> Unless someone has a better idea, I think we need to bump the minimum
> required ICU version to 55. That would solve the issue in v16 and
> later, but those using old versions of ICU and old versions of postgres
> would still be vulnerable to these kinds of typos.
... that seems like an overreaction. We know from the buildfarm
that there's still a lot of old ICU out there. Is it really improving
anybody's life to try to forbid them from using such a version?
regards, tom lane
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