Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Monday 30 March 2009 20:06:48 Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> LC_CTYPE. In 8.3 and up where we constrain that to match the database
>> encoding, we only have a problem with the C locale.
> Why don't we apply the same restriction to the C locale then?
(1) what would you constrain it to?
(2) historically we've allowed C locale to be used with any encoding,
and there are a *lot* of users depending on that (particularly in the
Far East, I gather).
regards, tom lane