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Re: Order changes in PG16 since ICU introduction

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-06-06T19:18:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 6/6/23 15:15, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 14:11 -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
>> This discussion makes me wonder (though probably too late for the v16
>> cycle) if we shouldn't treat "C" and "POSIX" locales to be a third 
>> provider, something like "internal".
> 
> That's exactly what I did in v6 of this series: I created a "none"
> provider, and when someone specified provider=icu iculocale=C, it would
> change the provider to "none":
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5f9bf4a0b040428c5db2dc1f23cc3ad96acb5672.camel%40j-davis.com
> 
> I'm fine with either approach.

Ha!

Well it seems like I am +1 on that then ;-)

-- 
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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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.