Re: ICU for global collation

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Date: 2022-01-13T08:39:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 11.01.22 12:08, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>> So, unless there are concerns, I'm going to see about making a patch to call
>> pg_newlocale_from_collation() even with the default collation. That would
>> make the actual feature patch quite a bit smaller, since we won't have to
>> patch every call site of pg_newlocale_from_collation().
> +1 for me!

Here is that patch.

If this is applied, then in my estimation all these hunks will 
completely disappear from the global ICU patch.  So this would be a 
significant win.

Commits

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  1. Add CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS while restoring changes during decoding.

  2. Improve ICU option handling in CREATE DATABASE

  3. Don't allow creation of database with ICU locale with unsupported encoding

  4. Make locale option behavior more consistent

  5. pg_dump: Dump colliculocale

  6. Remove further unwanted linker flags from perl_embed_ldflags

  7. Doc: document possible need to raise kernel's somaxconn limit.

  8. Reduce warnings with -Wshadow=compatible-local builds

  9. Remove redundant spaces in _outA_Expr() output

  10. Fix outdated --help message for postgres -f

  11. pg_upgrade: Fix version comparison for global ICU support

  12. Silence -Wmaybe-uninitialized compiler warning in dbcommands.c.

  13. Add option to use ICU as global locale provider

  14. DefineCollation() code cleanup

  15. Change collate and ctype fields to type text

  16. Call pg_newlocale_from_collation() also with default collation

  17. Use libc version as a collation version on glibc systems.

  18. Silence -Wmaybe-uninitialized compiler warnings in dbcommands.c.

  19. Make LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE database-level settings. Collation and