Thread: How is the default encoding determined

I recently was bitten by having two servers where the database encoding
was different. When I do an 'initdb' how does it determine the 'default'
encoding?

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Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin

This looks like what you are looking for.



http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/app-initdb.html


The character set encoding can be set separately for a database when it is created. initdb determines the encoding for
thetemplate1 database, which will serve as the default for all other databases. To alter the default encoding use the
--encodingoption. More details can be found in Section 21.2. 







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I recently was bitten by having two servers where the database encoding
was different. When I do an 'initdb' how does it determine the 'default'
encoding?

--
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin

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Travis Smith wrote:
> This looks like what you are looking for.
>
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/app-initdb.html
>
>
> The character set encoding can be set separately for a database when
> it is created. initdb determines the encoding for the template1
> database, which will serve as the default for all other databases. To
> alter the default encoding use the --encoding option. More details
> can be found in Section 21.2.

Thanks, I saw all that, what I was trying to figure out is where in the
environment does initdb determine what to set the encoding to when it's
not specified.

I ran into a problem with the wrong encoding on our database and I want
to figure out if it's because the environment is different on this box,
or if it was caused by the upgrade from 7.4 to 8.3

--
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin