Re: Default Locale in initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Default Locale in initdb
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Msg-id 200406030130.i531U2s19482@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Default Locale in initdb  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: Default Locale in initdb
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > When this new behavior was introduced, and I migrated our databases to 
> > the new PgSQL version (dump/restore), the locale of all my databases 
> > were silently changed from C to US_en. This broke one application in a 
> > very subtle way because of slightly different sort behavior in the 
> > different locale. Tracking it down was quite tricky.
> > 
> > PgSQL was just a little too helpful in this case.
> 
> Seems pretty nasty thing to do.  I would so vote for making -E and -W 
> and --locate required flags to initdb.  Oh the amount of time I've spent 
> with people in IRC..

What about folks who don't use locales?

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