Support PG_UNICODE_FAST locale in the builtin collation provider.
authorJeff Davis
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:56:30 +0000 (15:56 -0800)
committerJeff Davis
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:56:30 +0000 (15:56 -0800)
commitd3d0983169130a9b81e3fe48d5c2ca4931480956
tree75e680ff03b4af3fd21a36be49515367133e6d02
parent286a365b9c25479f8ad82043ed136748733adfa6
Support PG_UNICODE_FAST locale in the builtin collation provider.

The PG_UNICODE_FAST locale uses code point sort order (fast,
memcmp-based) combined with Unicode character semantics. The character
semantics are based on Unicode full case mapping.

Full case mapping can map a single codepoint to multiple codepoints,
such as "ß" uppercasing to "SS". Additionally, it handles
context-sensitive mappings like the "final sigma", and it uses
titlecase mappings such as "Dž" when titlecasing (rather than plain
uppercase mappings).

Importantly, the uppercasing of "ß" as "SS" is specifically mentioned
by the SQL standard. In Postgres, UCS_BASIC uses plain ASCII semantics
for case mapping and pattern matching, so if we changed it to use the
PG_UNICODE_FAST locale, it would offer better compliance with the
standard. For now, though, do not change the behavior of UCS_BASIC.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ddfd67928818f138f51635712529bc5e1d25e4e7[email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27bb0e52-801d-4f73-a0a4-02cfdd4a9ada@eisentraut.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Verite
13 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_collation.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
src/backend/regex/regc_pg_locale.c
src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale_builtin.c
src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/catalog/pg_collation.dat
src/include/utils/pg_locale.h
src/test/regress/expected/collate.utf8.out
src/test/regress/sql/collate.utf8.sql