Re: 8.4 open items list

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Personally I think the naming decision is close enough to be a coin
>> toss, and so either choice is fine with me. However, I think it is
>> Clearly Unacceptable for createdb's switches to be spelled differently
>> than the underlying SQL command's options. So it's not really "let's
>> not change this" but "which one do you consider it more important to not
>> change"?

> pgAdmin uses the SQL commands, not the external commands. IIRC the only
> external commands that are used are pg_dump[all], pg_restore, pg_ctl and
> initdb. Is initdb on the list of tools that might be changed?

Hm, that's a good point. initdb has these switches (and has had 'em for
a good long time):

--locale=LOCALE set default locale for new databases
--lc-collate=, --lc-ctype=, --lc-messages=LOCALE
--lc-monetary=, --lc-numeric=, --lc-time=LOCALE
set default locale in the respective category for
new databases (default taken from environment)
--no-locale equivalent to --locale=C

So createdb is consistent with longstanding history in initdb, and
that seems to mean that we should leave it alone and change
CREATE DATABASE to match (modulo underscore instead of dash).

regards, tom lane