SOURCES: postgresql.init, postgresql.sysconfig - what about NOT us...

[Radoslaw Zielinski]

Roman Barczyński <romke at estrefa.pl> [23-07-2005 20:13]:
> Dnia 2005-07-23 19:39, wrobell napisał:
>>> Author: romke                        Date: Sat Jul 23 13:30:49 2005 GMT
[...]
>>> - what about NOT using UNICODE as initdb encoding? (hardcoded -E UNICODE)
>>>   changes supporting sysconfig PG_INITDB_ENCODING to alter initdb encoding.
>> to romke: please remove this option. you are duplicating initdb script.
>> init option for postgresql.init script was introduced for simple scenarios.
>> if you need other encoding, then just use initdb script.
> then, why -E UNICODE is default? AFAIK initdb CAN guess default
> encoding from locale being used...

Because it's the only reasonable default.  Guessing an encoding is not
the right thing to do.

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Radosław Zieliński <radek at pld-linux.org>