> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
> > When I run initdb -E EUC_JP --no-locale, I found following in my
> > postgresql.conf:
>
> > default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.english'
>
> > The manual says:
>
> > default_text_search_config (string)
>
> > Selects the text search configuration that is used by those
> > variants of the text search functions that do not have an explicit
> > argument specifying the configuration. See Chapter 12 for further
> > information. The built-in default is pg_catalog.simple, but initdb
> > will initialize the configuration file with a setting that
> > corresponds to the chosen lc_ctype locale, if a configuration
> > matching that locale can be identified.
>
> > So I thought the initial value for it should be pg_catalog.simple,
> > rather than pg_catalog.english. If this is not a bug, what is the
> > idea behind lc_ctype = C corresponds to 'pg_catalog.english'?
> > When is pg_catalog.simple supposed to be used?
>
> Well, that documentation is correct as far as it goes; what it doesn't
> say is that initdb's mapping table explicitly maps C/POSIX locales to
> english. It seems like a reasonable default on this side of the water,
> but maybe I'm being too North-American-centric.
Ok. Are you going to to add "initdb's mapping table explicitly maps
C/POSIX locales to english" to the doc? If no, I can do that part.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
