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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
To: Ian Lawrence Barwick <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add CASEFOLD() function.
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:47:10 +0200
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On 17.06.25 17:37, Vik Fearing wrote:
> For <fold> (which includes LOWER() and UPPER()), the text says in 
> Section 6.35 GR 7.e:
> 
> 
> If the character set of <character factor> is UTF8, UTF16, or UTF32, 
> then FR is replaced by
>      Case:
>          i) If the <search condition> S IS NORMALIZED evaluates to True, 
> then NORMALIZE (FR)
>          ii) Otherwise, FR.
> 
> 
> Here, FR is the result of the function and S is its argument.
> 
> 
> It does not appear to me that our LOWER and UPPER functions obey this 
> rule, so there is a valid argument that we should continue to ignore it. 
> Or, we can say that we have at least one of three compliant.

The SQL standard also says in a few other places that normalization 
should be applied, and we do none of those, so this is probably not a 
reason to change CASEFOLD at this point.

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