Re: locale - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dennis Bjorklund
Subject Re: locale
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0404090712480.4551-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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In response to Re: locale  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yup, exactly.  If we did not force both LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to have
> the same values cluster-wide, then we *would* have index corruption
> issues.

We really show warn people that using another encoding in a database then 
what the cluster uses, breaks sorting.

I was under the impression that as long as I've set the right locale when
doing initdb I could then create different databases with different
encodings and it all works, but it does not. I simply trust pg too much
(not without reason since it is an amazing project).

-- 
/Dennis Björklund



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