Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 1 Installer available for download

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksander Kmetec [mailto:aleksander(dot)kmetec(at)intera(dot)si]
> Sent: 11 August 2004 05:00
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org;
> pginstaller-devel(at)pgfoundry(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta
> 1 Installer available for download
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> >>initdb.log says:
> >>initdb: "WIN1250" is not a valid server encoding name
> >
> > OK, it would seem that some of the encodings listed in
> > src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c are not listed as supported on
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/multibyte.html (that
> > includes win1250). I have limited the list to exactly what's in the
> > documentation.
>
> I've also noticed a problem with locales.
>
> Installer uses a static list of locales copied from MSDN.
> Because of this, not all locales installed on the current
> system are listed as available. Also, if you only supply a
> locale name to initdb, then the default encoding for that
> locale is used as value for lc_* settings
> (German_Germany.1252, Slovenian_Slovenia.1250, ...). This
> causes errors in sorting order and wrong return values for
> locale dependant functions when your database encoding
> differs from locale encoding.
>
> If there's nobody else working on this yet, I can try doing
> it myself, since I already have a piece of code which
> retrieves all installed locales and code pages for the current system.

Please feel free to give it a go. Patches from anyone are welcome :-)

Regards, Dave