Hi, Le jeudi 09 avril 2009 à 14:03:28, Bruno Baguette a écrit : > [...] > Currently, I have several PostgreSQL databases, some of them are using > LATIN1 encoding, some of them are using UTF-8 encoding. > > In order to have theses two encoding, we had to install two PostgreSQL > server on two different ports. One is for LATIN1 databases and one is > for UTF-8 databases. (I known there is a workaround which allows to mix > several databases encoding them on a same PostgreSQL server, by > specifying "C" locale to initdb). > You can do better already on 8.3. You create all your databases with UTF-8 and add client_encoding with LATIN1 for the ones that need this. A simple: ALTER DATABASE dbX SET client_encoding TO latin1; should work. > I've heard some rumors on freenode stating that PostgreSQL 8.4. will > allow to have several databases encoding. Did I understand right ? > You'll have the possibility to specify lc_ctype and lc_collate. See http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-createdatabase.html for more informations. Regards. -- Guillaume. http://www.postgresqlfr.org http://dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
