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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2009-05-05 23:39:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2009-05-05 23:39:55 +0000 |
| commit | d7ee335520f1bfc7e10dfac43b4611736da42f00 (patch) | |
| tree | 49ee8d51e2bda8462ba211025d77efd7515e136f /src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c | |
| parent | 2fe0f2962c965a3da107a881cc1f697217465a0e (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-d7ee335520f1bfc7e10dfac43b4611736da42f00.tar.gz postgresql-d7ee335520f1bfc7e10dfac43b4611736da42f00.zip | |
Tweak a comment to agree a bit better with the new dispensation that
locales are database-wide, not server-wide.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c index cb536f3d59f..cf6e7400985 100644 --- a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c +++ b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c,v 1.222 2009/04/23 17:39:21 tgl Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c,v 1.223 2009/05/05 23:39:55 tgl Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -332,10 +332,12 @@ createdb(const CreatedbStmt *stmt) errmsg("invalid locale name %s", dbctype))); /* - * Check whether encoding matches server locale settings. We allow - * mismatch in three cases: + * Check whether chosen encoding matches chosen locale settings. This + * restriction is necessary because libc's locale-specific code usually + * fails when presented with data in an encoding it's not expecting. + * We allow mismatch in three cases: * - * 1. ctype_encoding = SQL_ASCII, which means either that the locale is + * 1. locale encoding = SQL_ASCII, which means either that the locale is * C/POSIX which works with any encoding, or that we couldn't determine * the locale's encoding and have to trust the user to get it right. * |