Re: per-database locale: createdb switches

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Which raises yet another question, why CTYPE and COLLATE have to be 
> hardcoded settings and catalog columns instead of being stored in 
> datconfig as database-startup-only settings?

Because changing CTYPE or COLLATE in an existing database would render 
indexes broken.

Perhaps we could've put them in datconfig, and forbidden changing them 
after CREATE DATABASE. Then again, encoding is a similar setting too, 
and that's stored in a catalog column.

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