Re: [HACKERS] Does initdb -e is working ? (Latest dev. snapshot)

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:32:43 +0900
> From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
> To: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Does initdb -e is working ? (Latest dev. snapshot)
>
> > Probably I miss something
> > I tried latest snapshot and notice some changes in configure.
> > Everything went smoothly on my Linux 2.2.14, glic 2.1.2 system.
> >
> > One problem: I tried initdb -e koi8 and it doesn't works -
>
> Because someone has changed -e to -E.

OK. this is good if we have now similar option,
I suggest Peter should reflect this change in initdb --help
Usage:
initdb [options] datadir

Options:
[-D, --pgdata] <datadir> Location for this database
-W, --pwprompt Prompt for a password for the new superuser's
-e, --encoding <encoding> Set the default multibyte encoding for new databases
^^^

>
> > I found -e for initdb , -E for createdb options for specifying encoding a
> > little bit confused - why not just use one of them !
>
> So now both initdb and createdb use -E as you expect. I think this is
> a good thing.
>
> > Is't possible to change encoding of database except dump/destroydb/createdb
> > cycle ? Is't worth to have pg_encoding to do this ?
>
> update pg_database set encoding = pg_char_to_encoding('KOI8');
>
> should work for you. However I'm a little bit worried about the
> syscache staffs. It would be safer to shutdown postmaster then issue
> the update command from standalone postgres.

Thanks, it works fine.

Regards,
Oleg

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> Tatsuo Ishii
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