Re: UNIQUE INDEX difference between 7.2 and 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Kevin Houle wrote:

> >> There is an email attachment (md5: 5cc780da645df9516235d43d1cf1e8b5)
> >> which contains a file with two SQL INSERT commands to insert two rows
> >> into a test table. The table should look like this:
> >>
> >>   CREATE TABLE tbl_test (
> >>     testcol text,
> >>     unique (testcol)
> >>   );
> >>
> >> The databases in my testing are using SQL_ASCII encoding.
> >
> > I don't receive an error on my 7.3.4 system, what locale is the database
> > initialized in?
>
> I'm using defaults, so on RH9 it is:
>
>   /var/lib/pgsql/initdb.i18n:
>    LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Okay, I see it with en_US.UTF-8, but not with C locale, nor with
en_US or en_US.iso885915.  It looks like the comparison rules are
different between the locales (and I'm not sure if SQL_ASCII encoding
and a UTF8 locale makes sense in practice).