createdb() didn't check for collation attributes validity, which has
to be done explicitly on ICU < 54. It also forgot to close the ICU collator
opened during the check which leaks some memory.
To fix both, add a new check_icu_locale() that does all the appropriate
verification and close the ICU collator.
initdb also had some partial check for ICU < 54. To have consistent error
reporting across major ICU versions, and get rid of the need to include ucol.h,
remove the partial check there. The backend will report an error if needed
during the post-boostrap iniitialization phase.
Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@free.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220319041459.qqqiqh335sga5ezj@jrouhaud
Otherwise, the database encoding varies depending on the user's
environment, and so the test might fail depending on whether ICU
likes the encoding. In particular, the test fails completely
if the prevailing locale is C.
This adds the option to use ICU as the default locale provider for
either the whole cluster or a database. New options for initdb,
createdb, and CREATE DATABASE are used to select this.
Since some (legacy) code still uses the libc locale facilities
directly, we still need to set the libc global locale settings even if
ICU is otherwise selected. So pg_database now has three
locale-related fields: the existing datcollate and datctype, which are
always set, and a new daticulocale, which is only set if ICU is
selected. A similar change is made in pg_collation for consistency,
but in that case, only the libc-related fields or the ICU-related
field is set, never both.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a%402ndquadrant.com
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane