Re: Add standard collation UNICODE

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-08T15:48:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 27.04.23 13:44, Daniel Verite wrote:
> This collation has an empty pg_collation.collversion column, instead
> of being set to the same value as "und-x-icu" to track its version.

> The original patch implements this as an INSERT in which it would be easy to
> fix I guess, but in current HEAD it comes as an entry in
> include/catalog/pg_collation.dat:
> 
> { oid => '963',
>    descr => 'sorts using the Unicode Collation Algorithm with default
> settings',
>    collname => 'unicode', collprovider => 'i', collencoding => '-1',
>    colliculocale => 'und' },
> 
> Should it be converted back into an INSERT or better left
> in this file and collversion being updated afterwards?

How about we do it with an UPDATE command.  We already do this for 
pg_database in a similar way.  See attached patch.

Commits

  1. initdb: Set collversion for standard collation UNICODE

  2. Add standard collation UNICODE