When this new behavior was introduced, and I migrated our databases to the new PgSQL version (dump/restore), the locale of all my databases were silently changed from C to US_en. This broke one application in a very subtle way because of slightly different sort behavior in the different locale. Tracking it down was quite tricky.
PgSQL was just a little too helpful in this case.
Seems pretty nasty thing to do. I would so vote for making -E and -W and --locate required flags to initdb. Oh the amount of time I've spent with people in IRC..
Chris
---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
