Re: Catastrophic changes to PostgreSQL 8.4

[moving this point to -hackers]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:
> When I tried the above Postgres did not ignore the command, instead it gave me
> the following error and did not create the database:
> CREATE DATABASE bacula ENCODING 'SQL_ASCII';
> ERROR:  new encoding (SQL_ASCII) is incompatible with the encoding of the
> template database (UTF8)
> HINT:  Use the same encoding as in the template database, or use template0 as
> template.

Actually I'm kind of surprised at this. I don't see a reason not to
allow converting a template to SQL_ASCII from any encoding given that
we're going to allow them to put random bytes into the database
afterwards. Why not let them start with random bytes?

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greg