Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 19:28:43 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Alexander Borisov <lex.borisov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed
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On Sun, May  4, 2025 at 02:24:16AM +0300, Alexander Borisov wrote:
> 04.05.2025 01:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Given the performance numbers above, which were not in the commit, maybe
> > I should add it to the case folding item, and add his name as a
> > co-author.
> > 
> 
> I'm not a co-author, I'm the author of my own algorithm that
> significantly improves PostgreSQL code.
> The author of casefold() is Jeff Davis (and in general, as I understand,
> Jeff is responsible for Unicode in Postgres).
> I only suggested how to significantly improve the storage of Unicode
> Case data and provide fast access to this data.
> In other words, I improved, accelerated the algorithms.
> 
> Because of which the functions lower(), upper(), casefold() got a
> significant boost.

It doesn't warrant its own item because it is not user-facing work.  The
best we can do is add the commit to an existing item and add you as a
co-author on an existing item.  You will see several items that are that
way already.

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