From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
Cc: | Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: confused with encodings |
Date: | 2003-06-17 12:34:35 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0306162102360.2751-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Oleg Bartunov writes:
> I thought I could specify different encodings for different databases
> and these encodings will be used in text operations (sort, upper,lower),
> not just for conversion. But, actually, the only encoding is important
> for text operations - the one specified with 'initdb' command ! Is't
> true ?
Absolutely not, but you may find that in order to allow LC_CTYPE
operations (namely sort, upper, lower) in UTF8, you need a locale that
supports that, namely the xx_XX.utf8 kind. So realistically, you are kind
of stuck with one encoding for the entire cluster.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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