Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Now, what about the idea of providing a shorthand LOCALE='foo',
> mirroring --locale=foo initdb option? It seems like a good idea, because
> you almost never want to set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE differently. If we
> do that, should LOCALE=foo also imply a per-database lc_messages,
> lc_monetary, lc_numeric and lc_time settings? It seems like it should
> for the sake of consistency.
The comment upthread was that we can/should leave that for 8.5.
I agree with that at this point. I think the above proposal is
not as straightforward as it looks (in particular per-DB lc_messages
has unpleasant implications for the postmaster log) and we should
not tackle it in a hasty manner.
regards, tom lane
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