Re: Rework of collation code, extensibility

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2023-01-11T23:52:26Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 15:08 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I think the refactoring that you proposed in the thread "Refactor to 
> introduce pg_strcoll()." was on a sensible track.  Maybe we should
> try 
> to get that done.

Those should be patches 0001-0003 in this thread (now at v6), which are
all pure refactoring.

Let's consider those patches the topic of this thread and I'll move
0004-0007 back to the multi-lib ICU thread on the next revision.

-- 
Jeff Davis
PostgreSQL Contributor Team - AWS

Commits

Remove unnecessary #ifdef USE_ICU and branch.
- e0b3074e8944 16.0 landed
Refactor to introduce pg_locale_deterministic().
- 6974a8f7682b 16.0 landed
Refactor to add pg_strcoll(), pg_strxfrm(), and variants.
- d87d548cd030 16.0 landed
Fix MSVC build
- c971a5b27ac9 16.0 cited