Huang GeHua <pluscn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I want create a new database with the GB18030 encoding.But the > pgAdminIII tell a error "GB18030 is not a valid encoding name".How can > i do for it? The docs say that GB18030 is supported as a client-side encoding only. So pick any superset encoding (UTF8 maybe?) as the database encoding, and then set client_encoding to GB18030. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match