Re: 8.4 open items list

On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:38:06 Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > Now, what about the idea of providing a shorthand LOCALE='foo',
> > mirroring --locale=foo initdb option? It seems like a good idea, because
> > you almost never want to set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE differently. If we
> > do that, should LOCALE=foo also imply a per-database lc_messages,
> > lc_monetary, lc_numeric and lc_time settings? It seems like it should
> > for the sake of consistency.
>
> The comment upthread was that we can/should leave that for 8.5.
> I agree with that at this point. I think the above proposal is
> not as straightforward as it looks (in particular per-DB lc_messages
> has unpleasant implications for the postmaster log) and we should
> not tackle it in a hasty manner.

Those are good points, but note that createdb already *has* a --locale option
that does something specific, so in light of your earlier argument that
createdb and CREATE DATABASE options should be the same, the possibilities for
a future CREATE DATABASE ... LOCALE=foo are already being constrained.