Re: initdb in 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Tassonis
Subject Re: initdb in 8.3
Date
Msg-id 480FBF6D.2070301@cubic.ch
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In response to Re: initdb in 8.3  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:46:35AM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>
>> As you probably are all aware of, this results now in a cluster that
>> will only allow you to create UTF-8 databases. I have read some posts
>> regarding this topic where it is explained that allowing LATIN1 on a
>> cluster initialized with UTF-8 will give you problems
>
> Ain't it the other way round ?
>
> Creating UTF8 databases on LATIN1 clusters won't work ?

No it's this way round, but maybe the other way round, too.
You can only create databases with arbitrary encodings on C locale
clusters from 8.3 on.

Regards
Tim

>
> Karsten


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