Please forgive the empty reply preceeding this note. Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jerry Sievers <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Hi. I am curious how/why the Pg 8.1.1 build on Solaris > > SunOS $hostname 5.9 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 > > chose LATIN9 charset as default. > > It probably deduced that from the locale setting (LANG or LC_ALL) > that initdb was run in. Try "show lc_collate" if you don't remember > what that was. Thanks for this info. Interesting, it was iso8859-15. I inidb a new cluster and this time, I get SQL_ASCII. This is without a hint of language or locale stuff in the ENV. Guessing the postgres user's env has changed since the original cluster creation. Have a great weekend. > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Sievers 305 854-3001 (home) WWW ECommerce Consultant 305 321-1144 (mobile http://www.JerrySievers.com/