Re: Default encoding for new databases

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgadmin-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
> Peter Eisentraut
> Sent: 08 December 2005 23:04
> To: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] Default encoding for new databases
>
> pgadmin3 proposes UTF8 as the default for new databases.
> While this is
> undoubtedly a contribution to world peace, it's also an invitation to
> create broken databases. The default encoding should be the encoding
> of template1 (or alternatively the template database chosen by the
> user) so that it matches the initialized locale. This is how the
> command line works. Other combinations will lead to databases with
> unusable sorting behavior. Please correct that.

Thanks, fixed (though I used template0 to get the default as it's less
likely to get dropped and possibly recreated in a different encoding).

Regards, Dave.