> When this new behavior was introduced, and I migrated our databases to
> the new PgSQL version (dump/restore), the locale of all my databases
> were silently changed from C to US_en. This broke one application in a
> very subtle way because of slightly different sort behavior in the
> different locale. Tracking it down was quite tricky.
>
> PgSQL was just a little too helpful in this case.
Seems pretty nasty thing to do. I would so vote for making -E and -W
and --locate required flags to initdb. Oh the amount of time I've spent
with people in IRC..
Chris