From: | Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dmitry Koval <d(dot)koval(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: WIN32 pg_import_system_collations |
Date: | 2022-11-04 22:08:24 |
Message-ID: | CAC+AXB078_wJumwG9nOP--m3cTWKhAUeC22S73rUMVhXknstUg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:09 PM Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
Thanks for taking a look into this patch.
>
> Consider this function you are introducing:
>
> +/*
> + * Create a collation if the input locale is valid for so.
> + * Also keeps track of the number of valid locales and collations created.
> + */
> +static int
> +CollationFromLocale(char *isolocale, char *localebuf, int *nvalid,
> + int *ncreated, int nspid)
>
> This declaration is incomprehensible without studying all the callers
> and the surrounding code.
>
> Start with the name: What does "collation from locale" mean? Does it
> make a collation? Does it convert one? Does it find one? There should
> be a verb in there.
>
> (I think in the context of this file, a lower case name would be more
> appropriate for a static function.)
>
> Then the arguments. The input arguments should be "const". All the
> arguments should be documented. What is "isolocale", what is
> "localebuf", how are they different? What is being counted by "valid"
> (collatons?, locales?), and what makes a thing valid and invalid? What
> is being "created"? What is nspid? What is the return value?
>
> Please make another pass over this.
>
> Ok, I can definitely improve the comments for that function.
> Also consider describing in the commit message what you are doing in
> more detail, including some of the things that have been discussed in
> this thread.
>
> Going through the thread for the commit message, I think that maybe the
collation naming remarks were not properly addressed. In the current
version the collations retain their native name, but an alias is created
for those with a shape that we can assume a POSIX equivalent exists.
Please find attached a new version.
Regards,
Juan José Santamaría Flecha
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v7-0002-Add-collate.windows.win1252-test.patch | application/octet-stream | 45.7 KB |
v7-0001-WIN32-pg_import_system_collations.patch | application/octet-stream | 8.4 KB |
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