Re: locale

From: Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: locale
Date: 2004-04-09 05:18:33
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0404090712480.4551-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yup, exactly. If we did not force both LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to have
> the same values cluster-wide, then we *would* have index corruption
> issues.

We really show warn people that using another encoding in a database then
what the cluster uses, breaks sorting.

I was under the impression that as long as I've set the right locale when
doing initdb I could then create different databases with different
encodings and it all works, but it does not. I simply trust pg too much
(not without reason since it is an amazing project).

--
/Dennis Björklund

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