Re: pgsql: Add option to use ICU as global locale provider

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-03-20T11:46:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 11:03:38AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 19.03.22 05:14, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 03:09:59PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 2022-03-18 20:28:58 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > > Why does your patch introduce a function check_icu_locale() that is only
> > > > called once?  Did you have further plans for that?
> > > 
> > > I like that it moves ICU code out of dbcommands.c
> > 
> > Yes, it seemed cleaner this way.  But more importantly code outside pg_locale.c
> > really shouldn't have to deal with ICU specific version code.
> > 
> > I'm attaching a v2, addressing Peter and Tom comments to not duplicate the old
> > ICU versions attribute function.  I removed the ICU locale check entirely (for
> > consistency across ICU version) thus removing any need for ucol.h include in
> > initdb.
> 
> committed

Thanks!



Commits

  1. psql: fix \l display for pre-v15 databases.

  2. Fix global ICU collations for ICU < 54

  3. Add option to use ICU as global locale provider

  4. Add support for collation attributes on older ICU versions