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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 17:51:56 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 01:30:03PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-05-09 at 00:03 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
> > see the results here:
> > 
> >         https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
> 
> For this item:
> 
>     Create a "builtin" collation provider similar to libc's C
>     locale (Jeff Davis)
> 
>     It uses a "C" locale which is identical but independent of
>     libc, but it allows the use of non-"C" collations like "en_US"
>     and "C.UTF-8" with the "C" locale, which libc does not. MORE? 
> 
> I suggest something more like:
> 
>     New, platform-independent "builtin" collation
>     provider. (Jeff Davis)
> 
>     Currently, it offers the "C" and "C.UTF-8" locales. The
>     "C.UTF-8" locale combines stable and fast code point order
>     collation with Unicode character semantics.

Okay, I went with the attached applied patch.  Adjustments?

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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  [text/x-diff] master.diff (793B, ../[email protected]/2-master.diff)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
index 0bc1c9a14ad..5d2fcd7d7de 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml
@@ -886,11 +886,11 @@ Author: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
 
 <listitem>
 <para>
-Create a "builtin" collation provider similar to libc's C locale (Jeff Davis)
+Create "builtin" collation provider similar to libc's C locale (Jeff Davis)
 </para>
 
 <para>
-It uses a "C" locale which is identical but independent of libc, but it allows the use of non-"C" collations like "en_US" and "C.UTF-8" with the "C" locale, which libc does not.  MORE?
+While its C locale is similar but independent of libc, its C.UTF-8 locale sorts by Unicode code points and has Unicode-based case folding.
 </para>
 </listitem>
 


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