Re: ICU for global collation

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Marina Polyakova <m.polyakova@postgrespro.ru>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pryzby@telsasoft.com, rjuju123@gmail.com, daniel@manitou-mail.org, AndrewBille@gmail.com, michael@paquier.xyz
Date: 2022-09-16T07:57:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 16.09.22 09:31, Marina Polyakova wrote:
> IMO it is hardly understantable from the program output either - it 
> looks like I manually chose the encoding UTF8. Maybe first inform about 
> selected encoding?..

Yes, I included something like that in the patch just committed.

> diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
> index 
> 6aeec8d426c52414b827686781c245291f27ed1f..348bbbeba0f5bc7ff601912bf883510d580b814c 100644
> --- a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
> +++ b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
> @@ -2310,7 +2310,11 @@ setup_locale_encoding(void)
>       }
> 
>       if (!encoding && locale_provider == COLLPROVIDER_ICU)
> +    {
>           encodingid = PG_UTF8;
> +        printf(_("The default database encoding has been set to \"%s\" 
> for a better experience with the ICU provider.\n"),
> +               pg_encoding_to_char(encodingid));
> +    }
>       else if (!encoding)
>       {
>           int            ctype_enc;




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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 Fix outdated --help message for postgres -f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