Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > 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.
What's different now is that 8.4 has already established the principle that you have to clone template0 if you want to change the locale of a database. I think this is a good time to establish the same principle for encodings. (Or in other words, if we don't fix it now, when will be a better time?) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers