Re: Database Encoding

Hi,

Yes, and thanks for correction and guidance, another thing to consider when
planning new system surroundings, well, the general idea ..., bearing in mind
the installed locale(s) etc., amongst other things.

Long way to Tipitina's,

Aarni

On Saturday 16 April 2005 19:18, you wrote:
> Aarni =?iso-8859-1?q?Ruuhim=E4ki?= <aarni@kymi.com> writes:
> > initdb -E LATIN1 ..., so one way to change it is to re-init.
> >
> > You can create databases with different encoding (from template1) with
> > same switch e.g.
> >
> > createdb mydb -E UTF8 ...
>
> Note that in most cases you can't just whack the encoding around without
> paying attention to locale.  I believe the only locale that really works
> with multiple encodings is "C" --- all the other ones assume a
> particular encoding.  You'll get very odd and unpleasant results from
> text sorting and functions like upper/lower if you have the database
> locale and encoding set incompatibly.
>
> Unfortunately we don't currently support changing locale on the fly ---
> so you can only set it at initdb time.  So the -E switch to createdb
> is a bit dangerous.
>
> This stuff is covered in the docs at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/charset.html
>
>    regards, tom lane

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