Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> In 8.0, the de facto default encoding is no longer SQL_ASCII, so that
>> problem should go away over time.
> My 8.0.0 (what I happen to have on hand) initdb creates a SQL_ASCII
> cluster by default unless I specify -E.
This would depend on what your LANG/LC_ALL environment is. I think
Peter is assuming that more and more systems default to setting up
non-C locale settings for users. Which is probably true but I have
no idea about total numbers.
regards, tom lane