Re: upgrade from 7.4 to 8.3

Gregory Stark schreef:
> Marc Cuypers <m.cuypers@mgvd.be> writes:
>
>> Error:
>> ERROR: encoding LATIN9 does not match server's locale nl_BE.utf8
>> SQL state: XX000
>> Detail: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding UTF8.
>>
>> Can i only use nl_BE and UTF-8 now?
>> Why can't i use LATIN9 anymore?
>> Is bacula 8.3 stricter in this respect to 7.4?
>
> 8.3 is stricter about checking that the configuration makes sense. But even
> under 7.4 you would have had problems, you just wouldn't have been forewarned
> so soon. You would still only be able to use nl_BE.utf8 collation but you
> would have been allowed to tell the server your data was encoded with latin9.
> So the collation results would have been nonsensical. Ie, comparisons like <
> and > would have given incorrect results.
>
> If this database is still under development and your schedule allows one
> option might be use 8.4dev from CVS. It should be released sometime in the
> next 3-6 months and will allow you to have a different encoding and locale for
> each database.

I'd like to stay with the standard version of debian.  So 8.4 is not an
option.

But i'll convert the database in 7.4 to UTF-8.  So the problem will be
solved.

--
Marc