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    Make initdb behave sanely when the selected locale has codeset "US-ASCII". · 8f8a5df6
    Tom Lane authored
    Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding.
    The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection
    of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding.
    Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases,
    and fix callers appropriately.  Only initdb actually changes behavior,
    since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases
    equivalent.
    
    Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap.  Not going to bother back-patching, since
    no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely,
    specify the encoding you want).
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    Make initdb behave sanely when the selected locale has codeset "US-ASCII".
    Tom Lane authored
    Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding.
    The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection
    of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding.
    Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases,
    and fix callers appropriately.  Only initdb actually changes behavior,
    since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases
    equivalent.
    
    Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap.  Not going to bother back-patching, since
    no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely,
    specify the encoding you want).