ICU for global collation
От | Peter Eisentraut |
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Тема | ICU for global collation |
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Msg-id | 5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a@2ndquadrant.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: ICU for global collation
Re: ICU for global collation |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
Here is an initial patch to add the option to use ICU as the global collation provider, a long-requested feature. To activate, use something like initdb --collation-provider=icu --locale=... A trick here is that since we need to also still set the normal POSIX locales, the --locale value needs to be valid as both a POSIX locale and a ICU locale. If that doesn't work out, there is also a way to specify it separately, e.g., initdb --collation-provider=icu --locale=en_US.utf8 --icu-locale=en This complexity is unfortunate, but I don't see a way around it right now. There are also options for createdb and CREATE DATABASE to do this for a particular database only. Besides this, the implementation is quite small: When starting up a database, we create an ICU collator object, store it in a global variable, and then use it when appropriate. All the ICU code for creating and invoking those collators already exists of course. For the version tracking, I use the pg_collation row for the "default" collation. Again, this mostly reuses existing code and concepts. Nondeterministic collations are not supported for the global collation, because then LIKE and regular expressions don't work and that breaks some system views. This needs some separate research. To test, run the existing regression tests against a database initialized with ICU. Perhaps some options for pg_regress could facilitate that. I fear that the Localization chapter in the documentation will need a bit of a rewrite after this, because the hitherto separately treated concepts of locale and collation are fusing together. I haven't done that here yet, but that would be the plan for later. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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