Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
>> If no --pgencoding, you get default (non-multibyte) coding even
>> if you compiled with --enable-mb.
> Not agreed. I think it would be better to give an error if no default
> encoding is not sepecified if configured with --enable-mb.
OK, I could live with that too. I think Peter's main point is that
there's no good reason to select a particular encoding at configure
time, even just as a "default". It'll be less confusing if initdb time
is the *only* time where you specify the particular MULTIBYTE encoding
you want.
regards, tom lane