Re: fixing tsearch locale support

On 26.08.25 18:52, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> So maybe the release notes should say
>> "now observes the locale provider configured for the database to
>> convert strings to lower case".
>
> Is it only used for converting to lower case, or is there any other
> operations that need to be mentioned? Converting to upper case too I
> presume. (I haven't been following this thread)

It's actually only lower case. (It should really be casefold, but that
might be a separate project for another day.) But after reading this a
few times, just writing "for converting to lower case" led me to ask
"but what about upper case", so I reworded it to "case conversion".

> We only support two collation providers, libc and ICU right? That makes
> Peter's phrasing "In database clusters that use a locale provider other
> than libc ..." an unnecessarily complicated way of saying ICU.

There is the "builtin" provider, and it is affected by this as well.

> It's pretty urgent to get the release notes in shape, people are testing
> upgrades with the betas already...

I have committed this release note item with some adjustment now.