On fre, 2011-02-04 at 10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The reason that we use quotes in CREATE DATABASE is that encoding
> names aren't assumed to be valid SQL identifiers. If this patch isn't
> following the CREATE DATABASE precedent, it's the patch that's wrong,
> not CREATE DATABASE.
Since encoding names are built-in and therefore well known, and the
names have been aligned with the SQL standard names, which are
identifiers, I don't think this argument is valid (anymore).
It probably shouldn't be changed inconsistently as part of an unrelated
patch, but I think the idea has merit.