Re: ICU for global collation

Julien Rouhaud wrote:

> If you want a database with an ICU default collation the lc_collate
> and lc_ctype should inherit what's in the template database and not
> what was provided in the LOCALE I think. You could still probably
> overload them in some scenario, but without a list of what isn't
> ICU-aware I can't really be sure of how often one might have to do
> it.

I guess we'd need that when creating a database with a different
encoding than the template databases, at least.

About what's not ICU-aware, I believe the most significant part in
core is the Full Text Search parser.
It doesn't care about sorting strings, but it relies on the functions
from POSIX <ctype.h>, which depend on LC_CTYPE
(it looks however that this could be improved by following
what has been done in backend/regex/regc_pg_locale.c, which has
comparable needs and calls ICU functions when applicable).

Also, any extension is potentially concerned. Surely many
extensions call functions from ctype.h assuming that
the current value of LC_CTYPE works with the data they handle.

Best regards,
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Daniel Vérité
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