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

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-03-18T19:30:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 18.03.22 18:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> I found a different problem with src/test/icu/: it fails altogether
> if the prevailing locale is "C", because then the database encoding
> defaults to SQL_ASCII which our ICU code won't cope with.  I'm not
> sure if that explains any of the buildfarm failures, but it broke
> my local build (yeah, I'm that guy).  I un-broke it for the moment
> by forcing the test to use UTF8 encoding, but do we want to do
> anything smarter than that?

This is an appropriate solution, I think.

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