On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 12:07:41PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> [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?

Oh, sorry. I think (@%&$firefox) it was this:

  https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/locale.html

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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