[email protected] (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
