Re: Simplify formatting.c

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I moved str_initcap() over into oracle_compat.c and then had initcap()
> > convert to/from TEXT to call it. The code is a little weird because
> > str_initcap() needs to convert to text to use texttowcs(), so in
> > multibyte encodings initcap converts the string to text, then to char,
> > then to text to call texttowcs(). I didn't see a cleaner way to do
> > this.
>
> Why not use wchar2char? It seems there's room for extra cleanup here.
>
> Also, the prototype of str_initcap in builtins.h looks out of place.

I talked to Alvaro on IM, and there is certainly much more cleanup to do
in this area. I will work from the bottom up. First, is moving the
USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER define to c.h, and removing TS_USE_WIDE and using
USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER instead. Patch attached and applied.

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