Re: ICU for global collation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2022-09-09 19:46, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> In pg14:
> |postgres=# create database a LC_COLLATE C LC_CTYPE C LOCALE C;
> |ERROR:  conflicting or redundant options
> |DETAIL:  LOCALE cannot be specified together with LC_COLLATE or 
> LC_CTYPE.
> 
> In pg15:
> |postgres=# create database a LC_COLLATE "en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE
> "en_US.UTF-8" LOCALE "en_US.UTF-8" ;
> |CREATE DATABASE
> 
> f2553d430 actually relaxed the restriction by removing this check:
> 
> -       if (dlocale && (dcollate || dctype))
> -               ereport(ERROR,
> -                               (errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
> -                                errmsg("conflicting or redundant 
> options"),
> -                                errdetail("LOCALE cannot be specified
> together with LC_COLLATE or LC_CTYPE.")));
> 
> But isn't the right fix to do the corresponding thing in createdb
> (relaxing the frontend restriction rather than reverting its relaxation
> in the backend).
> 
> diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c b/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c
> index e523e58b218..5b80e56dfd9 100644
> --- a/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c
> +++ b/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c
> @@ -159,15 +159,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
>              exit(1);
>      }
> 
> -    if (locale)
> -    {
> -        if (lc_ctype)
> -            pg_fatal("only one of --locale and --lc-ctype can be specified");
> -        if (lc_collate)
> -            pg_fatal("only one of --locale and --lc-collate can be specified");
> +    if (locale && !lc_ctype)
>          lc_ctype = locale;
> +    if (locale && !lc_collate)
>          lc_collate = locale;
> -    }
> 
>      if (encoding)
>      {

I agree with you that it is more comfortable and more similar to what 
has already been done in initdb. IMO it would be easier to do it like 
this:

diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c b/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c
index 
e523e58b2189275dc603a06324a2f28b0f49d8b7..a1482df3d981a680dd3322052e7c03ddacc8dc26 
100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/createdb.c
@@ -161,12 +161,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])

      if (locale)
      {
-        if (lc_ctype)
-            pg_fatal("only one of --locale and --lc-ctype can be specified");
-        if (lc_collate)
-            pg_fatal("only one of --locale and --lc-collate can be specified");
-        lc_ctype = locale;
-        lc_collate = locale;
+        if (!lc_ctype)
+            lc_ctype = locale;
+        if (!lc_collate)
+            lc_collate = locale;
      }

      if (encoding)

Should we change the behaviour of createdb and CREATE DATABASE in 
previous major versions?..

> BTW it's somewhat crummy that it uses a string comparison, so if you
> write "UTF8" without a dash, it says this; it took me a few minutes to
> see the difference...
> 
> postgres=# create database a LC_COLLATE "en_US.UTF8" LC_CTYPE
> "en_US.UTF8" LOCALE "en_US.UTF8";
> ERROR:  new collation (en_US.UTF8) is incompatible with the collation
> of the template database (en_US.UTF-8)

Perhaps we could check the locale itself with the function 
normalize_libc_locale_name (collationcmds.c). But ISTM that the current 
check is a safety net in case the function pg_get_encoding_from_locale 
(chklocale.c) returns -1 or PG_SQL_ASCII...

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