Re: Rework of collation code, extensibility

On 06.01.23 08:04, Jeff Davis wrote:
> The existing code is not great, in my opinion: it doesn't have clear
> API boundaries, the comments are insufficient, and lots of special
> cases need to be handled awkwardly by callers. That style is hard to
> beat when it comes to the raw line count; but it's quite difficult to
> understand and work on.
>
> I think my changes are an improvement, but obviously that depends on
> the opinion of others who are working in this part of the code. What do
> you think?

I think the refactoring that you proposed in the thread "Refactor to
introduce pg_strcoll()." was on a sensible track. Maybe we should try
to get that done. The multiple-ICU stuff is still experimental and has
its own rather impressive thread, so I don't think it's sensible to try
to sort that out here.