Re: Recommended cluster locale (initdb)?

From: Vladimir Borodin <root(at)simply(dot)name>
To: Jan-Peter Seifert <Jan-Peter(dot)Seifert(at)gmx(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recommended cluster locale (initdb)?
Date: 2016-09-23 14:22:51
Message-ID: AC984866-C6F0-4810-8228-200512D40F4F@simply.name
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> 23 сент. 2016 г., в 17:07, Jan-Peter Seifert <Jan-Peter(dot)Seifert(at)gmx(dot)de> написал(а):
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> Hello,
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> I wonder which locale to choose for the PostgreSQL server itself.
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> C for performance or a UTF-8 locale for compatibility?
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> Especially if there are LATIN1- and UTF-8 databases etc. ...
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> I did not find any articles discussing this.
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> Could you tell me, please?

Locale should be most certainly UTF-8. The thing to doubt is collation, you can read about it here [1].

[1] https://simply.name/pg-lc-collate.html <https://simply.name/pg-lc-collate.html>
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> Thank you very much,
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> Peter
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