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Support C.UTF-8 locale in the new builtin collation provider.

The builtin C.UTF-8 locale has similar semantics to the libc locale of
the same name. That is, code point sort order (fast, memcmp-based)
combined with Unicode semantics for character operations such as
pattern matching, regular expressions, and
LOWER()/INITCAP()/UPPER(). The character semantics are based on
Unicode simple case mappings.

The builtin provider's C.UTF-8 offers several important advantages
over libc:

 * faster sorting -- benefits from additional optimizations such as
   abbreviated keys and varstrfastcmp_c
 * faster case conversion, e.g. LOWER(), at least compared with some
   libc implementations
 * available on all platforms with identical semantics, and the
   semantics are stable, testable, and documentable within a given
   Postgres major version

Being based on memcmp, the builtin C.UTF-8 locale does not offer
natural language sort order. But it is an improvement for most use
cases that might otherwise use libc's "C.UTF-8" locale, as well as
many use cases that use libc's "C" locale.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ff4c2f2f9c8fc7ca27c1c24ae37ecaeaeaff6b53.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vérité, Peter Eisentraut, Jeremy Schneider
This commit is contained in:
Jeff Davis
2024-03-19 15:24:41 -07:00
parent fd0398fcb0
commit f69319f2f1
17 changed files with 494 additions and 26 deletions

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@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ CREATE COLLATION [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <replaceable>name</replaceable> FROM <replace
<para>
If <replaceable>provider</replaceable> is <literal>builtin</literal>,
then <replaceable>locale</replaceable> must be specified and set to
<literal>C</literal>.
either <literal>C</literal> or <literal>C.UTF-8</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>