Re: initdb in 8.3

Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Tim Tassonis:
> My question is: Why then is --locale=C not the default for initdb, as I
> do regard it as a rather big annoyance that a default installation on
> probably almost any modern linux distribution results in a UTF-8 only
> cluster, fixable only by dropping all databases, rerun initdb and the
> reimporting them again.

Because the vast majority of users prefers UTF-8 encoded databases over C
locale databases.