Re: Locale support is now on by default

Tom Lane writes:

> > initdb --lc-collate, initdb --locale, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LANG
> > initdb --no-locale is the same as initdb --locale=C, for convenience.
>
> I'm confused; what is the default behavior if you don't give any
> switches to initdb?

Whatever is set in the environment -- which boils down to LC_ALL,
LC_COLLATE, LANG.

> It might be that Bruce's recent changes to elog levels allow a graceful
> compromise about backend messages during initdb. I haven't looked, but
> maybe initdb could run the backend with message level one notch higher
> than LOG to suppress all the normal-case messages without masking not-
> so-normal cases.

I'll look.

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