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Re: Will PostgreSQL 8.4 allow having different encoding databases on a same PostgreSQL server ?

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Nevermind, I'm an idiot.  yeah, for latin1 you'd need locale=C

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Bruno Baguette <bruno.baguette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> 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).
>
> I think you are misinformed.  With pgsql 8.3:
>
> smarlowe=# show lc_collate ;
>  lc_collate
> -------------
>  en_US.UTF-8
>
>  \l
>        List of databases
>   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding
> -----------+----------+----------
>  postgres  | postgres | UTF8
>  smarlowe  | smarlowe | UTF8
>
> create database test with encoding 'SQL_ASCII';
>  \l
>        List of databases
>   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding
> -----------+----------+-----------
>  postgres  | postgres | UTF8
>  smarlowe  | smarlowe | UTF8
>  test      | smarlowe | SQL_ASCII
>



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