Re: [BUGS] BUG #6034: pg_upgrade fails when it should not.

Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> On Jun1, 2011, at 20:28 , Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Well, initdb still succeeds if you give it an invalid locale name.  It
>> warns, but that can easily be missed if initdb is hidden behind a few
>> other layers.  If you then run pg_upgrade, you get a hosed instance.

> Whats the rational behind that behaviour? Wouldn't it be more user-friendly
> if initdb failed outright? It'd also be consistent with CREATE DATABASE...

I think we were being conservative about whether initdb would get it
right.  Might be time to stiffen our spines a bit, now that the logic
has been through a few release cycles.
        regards, tom lane