Re: Installation Questions (FreeBSD / Windows / Postgres 9)

Panos Katergiathis <eyeprotocol(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Unfortunately, it has been a while since i last compiled and installed
> Postgresql on Linux machines. I remember that selecting the proper
> locale and encoding for the database cluster was a matter to be
> decided at built time. Is it still so for version 9?

No, see CREATE DATABASE documentation here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9/static/sql-createdatabase.html

CREATE DATABASE name
[ [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] user_name ]
[ TEMPLATE [=] template ]
[ ENCODING [=] encoding ]
[ LC_COLLATE [=] lc_collate ]
[ LC_CTYPE [=] lc_ctype ]
[ TABLESPACE [=] tablespace ]
[ CONNECTION LIMIT [=] connlimit ] ]

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support