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RE: Order changes in PG16 since ICU introduction

Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us>

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From: "Regina Obe" <lr@pcorp.us>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "'Peter Eisentraut'" <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, "'Sandro Santilli'" <strk@kbt.io>, <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "'Jeff Davis'" <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Date: 2023-04-21T18:13:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Yeah.  My recommendation is just LOCALE:
> 
> regression=# CREATE DATABASE test1 TEMPLATE=template0 ENCODING =
> 'UTF8' LOCALE = 'C'; CREATE DATABASE regression=# CREATE DATABASE test2
> TEMPLATE=template0 ENCODING = 'UTF8' ICU_LOCALE = 'C';
> NOTICE:  using standard form "en-US-u-va-posix" for locale "C"
> CREATE DATABASE
> 
> I think it's probably intentional that ICU_LOCALE is stricter about being
given
> a real ICU locale name, but I didn't write any of that code.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

CREATE DATABASE test1 TEMPLATE=template0 ENCODING = 'UTF8' LOCALE = 'C';

Doesn't seem to work at least not under mingw64 anyway.

SELECT '+'  <  '-'  ;

Returns false

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  1. Introduce "builtin" collation provider.

  2. ICU: do not convert locale 'C' to 'en-US-u-va-posix'.

  3. initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.

  4. CREATE DATABASE: make LOCALE apply to all collation providers.

  5. Remove read-only server settings lc_collate and lc_ctype

  6. ICU: use uloc_getDefault() for initdb.

  7. Doc fixes for commit 1e16af8ab5.

  8. Doc: fix some rendering problems in the PDF docs build.

  9. Doc improvements for language tags and custom ICU collations.

  10. ICU: check for U_STRING_NOT_TERMINATED_WARNING.

  11. Reduce icu_validation_level default to WARNING.

  12. Revert "ICU: do not convert locale 'C' to 'en-US-u-va-posix'."

  13. Fix initdb --no-locale.

  14. Avoid character classification in regex escape parsing.