Re: Some 8.4 changes needed according to pg_migrator testing

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Friday 08 May 2009 19:09:51 Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> How about only outputting the LC_COLLATE/CTYPE options for databases
>> that use a non-default setting?

> That was my latest thinking as well.

Logically we should handle database encoding the same way, no?

I'm not really satisfied with this as a long-term solution, but it may
be the most we can hope to squeeze into 8.4.  I'm willing to go make the
pg_dumpall changes if there are not objections/better ideas.

>> If we go with that, we should probably make the notion of a default 
>> collation explicit. We could set pg_database.datcollate/datctype column 
>> to NULL to mean "use the cluster default".

I don't find that to be a good idea, mainly because there *is* no
"cluster default" anymore.  I think it's okay for pg_dumpall to treat
the template0 settings as being the "default" for its purposes, but keep
in mind that there is nothing much stopping a DBA from replacing
template0 with another DB that has different settings.  We can't have
that break existing DBs.
        regards, tom lane