diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/collatedstring.go b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/collatedstring.go
index 01f69a0474b8..230d7cea7398 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/collatedstring.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/collatedstring.go
@@ -10,5 +10,14 @@
 
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+import "golang.org/x/text/collate"
+
 // DefaultCollationTag is the "default" collation for strings.
 const DefaultCollationTag = "default"
+
+func init() {
+	if collate.CLDRVersion != "23" {
+		panic("This binary was built with an incompatible version of golang.org/x/text. " +
+			"See https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/63738 for details")
+	}
+}