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in its CREATE DATABASE commands only for databases that have settings different from the installation defaults. This is a low-tech method of avoiding unnecessary platform dependencies in dump files. Eventually we ought to have a platform-independent way of specifying LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE, but that's not going to happen for 8.4, and this patch at least avoids the issue for people who aren't setting up per-database locales. ENCODING doesn't have the platform dependency problem, but it seems consistent to make it act the same as the locale settings.
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