sorry, slightly off point but I am a newbie and I was wondering gary,
why aren’t you going to postgresql 10.X ? I keep thinking
that I should stay as current as possible. should I relax about that ?
david
From: Scott Whitney <scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 9:31 AM
To: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: upgrade from FC9 / PG8.3 to C7 / PG 9.6 - utf8
So long as you use pg_dump from PG 9 to dump the PG 8 databases, you'll be fine.
en_GB.UTF-8 will be fine (and is probably preferred).
From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 8:29 AM
To: pgsql-admin
Subject: upgrade from FC9 / PG8.3 to C7 / PG 9.6 - utf8
I'm performing a long overdue upgrade of a Fedora 9 / Postgresql 8.3 to a
Centos 7 / Postgresql 9.6 system.
I'm just going though the config files to check that everything is okay and
I've found a discrepency regarding language settings. I realise things have
progressed a lot since 2008 when I built this server, so I wonder what is the
right thing to do moving forward. The old system has
# These settings are initialized by initdb, but they can be changed.
lc_messages = 'en_GB' # locale for system error message strings
lc_monetary = 'en_GB' # locale for monetary formatting
lc_numeric = 'en_GB' # locale for number formatting
lc_time = 'en_GB' # locale for time formatting
while the new system has
lc_messages = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for system error message strings
lc_monetary = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for monetary formatting
lc_numeric = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for number formatting
lc_time = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for time formatting
Am I best changing the new system to match the old one?
If I leave the settings as they are, enabling the utf-8, how will it affect
a) the pg_dumpall / pg_recover process
b) using the database moving forward?
Gary
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