Re: PostgreSQL 18 GA press release draft

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 18 GA press release draft
Date: 2025-09-14 17:08:49
Message-ID: c6163e186fa4d5eaa1774acb507aa848bf9c7db4.camel@j-davis.com
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On Sun, 2025-09-14 at 09:41 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> I went with breaking this up into two sentences:
>
> This release adds the
> [`PG_UNICODE_FAST`](
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/collation.html#COLLATION-MANAGING-
> STANDARD),
> which provides full Unicode semantics for case transformations while
> helping to accelerate many comparisons. This includes the `upper` and
> `lower` string comparison functions and the new
> [`casefold`](
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/functions-string.html#FUNCTIONS-
> STRING-OTHER)
> function for case-insensitive comparisons.

Perfect, thank you.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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