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authorTom Lane2009-05-05 23:39:55 +0000
committerTom Lane2009-05-05 23:39:55 +0000
commit87bbef1db53f043a0efc8735e9f5a975ffe34ccf (patch)
tree1fd6e0b6b3a4dd0554a2a5e3e8feca75fd91545c
parent26fe3964b4273460d41cac9481b83de657cac733 (diff)
Tweak a comment to agree a bit better with the new dispensation that
locales are database-wide, not server-wide.
-rw-r--r--src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
index d300e57160..4d6ee2b1f9 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
@@ -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.
*