Tweak a comment to agree a bit better with the new dispensation that
authorTom Lane
Tue, 5 May 2009 23:39:55 +0000 (23:39 +0000)
committerTom Lane
Tue, 5 May 2009 23:39:55 +0000 (23:39 +0000)
locales are database-wide, not server-wide.

src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c

index cb536f3d59f203af08e5b39e27fe99e34e4ea23c..cf6e7400985d1f009811f9598b5e56fac4c33d24 100644 (file)
@@ -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.
     *