Re: locales design and timezone (was: dpkg-reconfigure unable to change greeter locale)
tomas@tuxteam.de (HE12025-12-23):
> The problem is -- what does "weird" mean? If you don't override things,
> cluster creation falls back to the environment. To me, that makes sense.
It is a matter of usability, not correctness: there is no need for a
mathematical definition, common sense is enough.
> Perhaps it would be the distro's job to be more explicit at cluster
> creation time (and remember, template0's setting is "just" a default
> for createdb/CREATE DATABASE.
Id does not matter whose job it is, as long as it is done.
Honestly, it has been a long time since I looked into it, I do not
remember exactly how it works, and even less how I think it should work
exactly. I remember that the initialization and database creation of
PostgreSQL likes to kick the principle of least astonishment in the
teeth.
> IMO, PostgreSQL already caters for that [1]
Forgot the ref?
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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