On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 08:22 +0000, James Pang (chaolpan) wrote:
> We create one database with collate= “C.LATIN1”, any difference between “C” and “C.LATIN1” ?
> database encoding is “LATIN1”.
>
> oid | collname | collencoding | collcollate | collctype | collversion
> -------+------------------------+--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------
> 950 | C | -1 | C | C |
> 12328 | C.latin1 | 8 | C.latin1 | C.latin1 |
The difference is a technicality: "C" is encoding agnostic (-1) and can be used with
any encoding, while "C.latin1" can only be used with encoding LATIN1 (8).
The behavior is the same.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
