On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 01:31:51AM +0300, Alexander Borisov wrote: > Hi hackers, > > > I will continue improving it until beta 1, and until the final release. > > I will probably add markup in 1-3 weeks. Let the feedback begin. ;-) > > > > You can see the most current HTML-built version here: > > > > https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-18.html > > > > > I'm not sure, but I'll ask. > > I have significantly improved the handling of Unicode Case in > PostgreSQL. > The improvements affect important functions such as lower(), upper(), > casefold(). > Specifically, the patch has significantly reduced the size of Unicode > Case tables (and consequently the size of the object file). > We got a significant speed gain: > ASCII by ≈10% > Cyrillic by ≈80% > Unicode in general by ≈30% > > But, unfortunately, I didn't see any mention of this improvement in the > release notes. > Hence the question to the community - are such improvements worth > mentioning? > > I'm just new to the community, and want to understand. > > Commit: > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=27bdec06841d1bb004ca7627eac97808b08a7ac7 > > I am now actively working on a major improvement to Unicode > Normalization Forms.
Given the performance numbers above, which were not in the commit, maybe I should add it to the case folding item, and add his name as a co-author. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
