Re: characters or bytes? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: characters or bytes?
Date
Msg-id 201105051625.p45GP9m23671@momjian.us
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In response to characters or bytes?  (Susanne Ebrecht <susanne@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Susanne Ebrecht wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During translating start.sgml - I found a sentence where I am not sure
> if it is correct.
>
> tutorial-createdb.html
>
> Second paragraph below the "permission denied to create a database"
> error message there is
> the sentence:
>
> " You can also create databases with other names. PostgreSQL allows
> you to create any number of databases at a given site. Database names
> must have an alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 characters
> in length. ..."
>
> Really 63 characters?
> Shouldn't it be 63 bytes?
>

Susanne, not sure you received a reply, but the documention has been
corrected to say "bytes".  Thanks.

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