Re: Shouldn't default multibyte encoding come from template database?

At 23:31 13/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Seems to me that it'd make more sense to
>default to the encoding used by the DB you're copying.  Comments?

Definitely. Especially when/if people start using 'WITH TEMPLATE' for more
databases.


>It's actually a little worrisome that we even allow selection of
>encoding during CREATE DATABASE.  If template1 (or any other source
>database) contains non-ASCII data

It is probably woth issuing a NOTICE or WARNING when the requested encoding
is different to the template.


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