Shouldn't non-MULTIBYTE backend refuse to start in MB database? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

We now have defenses against running a non-LOCALE-enabled backend in a
database that was created in non-C locale.  Shouldn't we likewise
prevent a non-MULTIBYTE-enabled backend from running in a database with
a multibyte encoding that's not SQL_ASCII?  Or am I missing a reason why
that is safe?

I propose the following addition to ReverifyMyDatabase in postinit.c:
 #ifdef MULTIBYTE     SetDatabaseEncoding(dbform->encoding);
+ #else
+    if (dbform->encoding != SQL_ASCII)
+        elog(FATAL, "some suitable error message"); #endif

Comments?
        regards, tom lane