On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:43:28AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> In light of the recent discussions about using ICU on OS X, I looked
> into the Core Foundation locale functions (Core Foundation = traditional
> Mac API in OS X, as opposed to the Unix/POSIX APIs).
>
> Attached is a proof of concept patch that just about works for the
> sorting aspects. (The ctype aspects aren't there yet and will crash,
> but they could be done similarly.) It passes an appropriately adjusted
> collate.linux.utf8 test, meaning that it does produce language-aware
> sort orders that are equivalent to what glibc produces.
>
> At the moment, this is probably just an experiment that shows where
> refactoring and better abstractions might be suitable if we want to
> support multiple locale libraries. If we want to pursue ICU, I think
> this could be a useful third option.
Does this make the backend multi-threaded?