This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause
to override it per expression, and B-tree index support.
Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding.
The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection
of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding.
Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases,
and fix callers appropriately. Only initdb actually changes behavior,
since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases
equivalent.
Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap. Not going to bother back-patching, since
no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely,
specify the encoding you want).
Also enable translation of PG_WIN874, which certainly seems to have an
obvious translation now, though maybe it did not at the time this table's
ancestor was created.
since this will allow initdb to reject attempts to initdb in a locale
that uses such an encoding. We'll probably find out more such names
during beta ...
databases with encodings that are incompatible with the server's LC_CTYPE
locale, when we can determine that (which we can on most modern platforms,
I believe). C/POSIX locale is compatible with all encodings, of course,
so there is still some usefulness to CREATE DATABASE's ENCODING option,
but this will insulate us against all sorts of recurring complaints
caused by mismatched settings.
I moved initdb's existing LC_CTYPE-to-encoding mapping knowledge into
a new src/port/ file so it could be shared by CREATE DATABASE.
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Magnus Hagander
Itagaki Takahiro
Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera