Jerry Sievers <jerry(at)jerrysievers(dot)com> writes:
> Hi. I am curious how/why the Pg 8.1.1 build on Solaris
> SunOS $hostname 5.9 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
> chose LATIN9 charset as default.
It probably deduced that from the locale setting (LANG or LC_ALL)
that initdb was run in. Try "show lc_collate" if you don't remember
what that was.
regards, tom lane