Re: upgrade from 7.4 to 8.3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Marc Cuypers <m(dot)cuypers(at)mgvd(dot)be>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: upgrade from 7.4 to 8.3
Date: 2009-03-11 12:47:21
Message-ID: 26099.1236775641@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Marc Cuypers <m(dot)cuypers(at)mgvd(dot)be> writes:
> Can i only use nl_BE and UTF-8 now?
> Why can't i use LATIN9 anymore?

The server-side encoding has to be compatible with the locale.
(7.4 didn't really *work* in this situation, as I'm surprised
you failed to notice.)

What you can do is keep the database encoding utf8, and do
ALTER DATABASE SET client_encoding = latin9
so that it looks like latin9 from the client side.

regards, tom lane

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