Re: initdb in 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: initdb in 8.3
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Msg-id 200804231315.08642.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to initdb in 8.3  (Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>)
Responses Re: initdb in 8.3  (Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>)
List pgsql-general
Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Tim Tassonis:
> My question is: Why then is --locale=C not the default for initdb, as I
> do regard it as a rather big annoyance that a default installation on
> probably almost any modern linux distribution results in a UTF-8 only
> cluster, fixable only by dropping all databases, rerun initdb and the
> reimporting them again.

Because the vast majority of users prefers UTF-8 encoded databases over C
locale databases.

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