Re: Simplify formatting.c - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Simplify formatting.c
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Msg-id 20080614212942.GD8519@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Simplify formatting.c  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I moved str_initcap() over into oracle_compat.c and then had initcap()
> convert to/from TEXT to call it.  The code is a little weird because
> str_initcap() needs to convert to text to use texttowcs(), so in
> multibyte encodings initcap converts the string to text, then to char,
> then to text to call texttowcs().  I didn't see a cleaner way to do
> this.

Why not use wchar2char?  It seems there's room for extra cleanup here.

Also, the prototype of str_initcap in builtins.h looks out of place.

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