Re: Rework of collation code, extensibility

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>

From: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
To: Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-12-18T04:54:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:28 AM Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems the `else` is not needed (since when the if branch is taken, we
return from the func).

By that same logic, this review comment is not needed, since compiler
vendors don't charge license fees by the number of keywords. ;-)
Joking aside, we don't really have a project style preference for this case.

> nul-terminate -> null-terminate

NUL is a common abbreviation for the zero byte (but not for zero pointers).
See the ascii manpage.

--
John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Remove unnecessary #ifdef USE_ICU and branch.

  2. Refactor to introduce pg_locale_deterministic().

  3. Refactor to add pg_strcoll(), pg_strxfrm(), and variants.

  4. Fix MSVC build