Re: Why do we let CREATE DATABASE reassign encoding?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> So the following sequence woiuld be illegal:

> initdb -E latin1
> createdb -E utf8

Yes, that's rather the point. Note that it already *is* illegal
unless you happen to have selected C locale; AFAICS that is an
oversight and not intentional. For instance, going in the other
direction in en_US locale, I get

$ createdb -E latin1 l1
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match locale en_US.utf8
DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding UTF8.

You can get around this by cloning template0 instead of template1
(we assume template0 contains nothing that's encoding-specific).
Possibly the docs will need to be improved to emphasize that.

regards, tom lane