Re: locale

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I was asking why we can't set it to a new static value when we create
> > the database.
> 
> Because that would corrupt indexes on shared tables.  (It might be
> possible to finesse that, but it's not a no-brainer.)

Oh, I hadn't thought of that.  The problem isn't encoding, because we
handle that already, but differen representations of time and stuff?

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