looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf
#client_encoding = sql_ascii # actually, defaults to database
# encoding
Now, certainly initdb can't know for sure what encoding a future database will
be in, but since it does know what encoding template0 & friends will be in,
and most databases are copied from those (including encoding), wouldn't a
better default be to set it the encoding of template0?
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
