Re: Why do we let CREATE DATABASE reassign encoding? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Why do we let CREATE DATABASE reassign encoding?
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Msg-id 200904240040.04760.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Why do we let CREATE DATABASE reassign encoding?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Why do we let CREATE DATABASE reassign encoding?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thursday 23 April 2009 22:00:25 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > So the following sequence woiuld be illegal:
> >
> > initdb -E latin1
> > createdb -E utf8
>
> Yes, that's rather the point.  Note that it already is illegal
> unless you happen to have selected C locale;

AFAIR, the only reason that we haven't disallowed this sort of stuff years and 
years ago is that people use it; the Japanese in particular.  I don't see what 
is different now.



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