Re: Collation version tracking for macOS

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

From: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, "Nasby, Jim" <nasbyj@amazon.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-12-01T13:22:35Z
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  1. Fix copy&paste typo in comment

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

> On Mon, 2022-11-28 at 19:36 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> On Mon, 2022-11-28 at 21:57 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > That is ... astonishingly bad.
>> 
>> https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-16175
>
> Oops, reported in CLDR instead of ICU. Moved to:
>
> https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-22215

Out of morbid curiosity I went source diving, and the culprit is this
bit (which will also break if a version component ever goes above 999):

    /* write the decimal field value */
    field=versionArray[part];
    if(field>=100) {
        *versionString++=(char)('0'+field/100);
        field%=100;
    }
    if(field>=10) {
        *versionString++=(char)('0'+field/10);
        field%=10;
    }
    *versionString++=(char)('0'+field);

(https://sources.debian.org/src/icu/72.1-3/source/common/putil.cpp#L2308)

because apparently snprintf() is too hard?

- ilmari