Re: per-database locale: createdb switches

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>> Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >>>>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>>>>> I like Teodor's proposal; I'll see about implementing that.
> >>>>> Attached.
> >>>> You missed updating the sgml docs, and personally I'd be inclined to
> >>>> list -l before the individual --lc switches; otherwise it looks fine.
> >>> Thanks, committed that way. I noticed that --lc-ctype and --lc-collate
> >>> were forgotten in SGML docs, so I added them too.
> >> Should we have a shorthand CREATE DATABASE option like that as well?
> >
> > createdb is really about convenience; not sure it is warranted for
> > CREATE DATABASE.
>
> I think unless you are doing something completely funny, you would
> usually want to have COLLATE and CTYPE equal. The fact that you now
> have to enter both to get that result could be pretty annoying in
> practice, I would think.

I agree but I can't think of many cases where we offer one option which
controls two other options; can you?

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