*
*
* 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 $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
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.
*