Re: 8.4 open items list

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:38:06 Tom Lane wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)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.
>
> Those are good points, but note that createdb already *has* a --locale option
> that does something specific, so in light of your earlier argument that
> createdb and CREATE DATABASE options should be the same, the possibilities for
> a future CREATE DATABASE ... LOCALE=foo are already being constrained.

Hmm, maybe we should remove the --locale option from createdb as well,
until we can implement it in a way that will set all the lc_* settings.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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