| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Ulrich Wisser <liste(at)publisher(dot)de> |
| Cc: | "[ADMIN]" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Changing locale |
| Date: | 2005-12-21 16:13:45 |
| Message-ID: | 13730.1135181625@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Ulrich Wisser <liste(at)publisher(dot)de> writes:
> after Tom's last hint I checked the locale of my installation. With a
> test installation with locale C all my problem scripts worked. Now I
> wonder what will happen if I dump my whole database, reinitialize with
> locale C and reload my data. Will this have some impact on my character
> data even if I choose the same encoding (SQL_ASCII) as before?
With locale C you can use any encoding you want; the impact will be that
sort order of text comparison is just by raw bytes, and upper/lower case
functions will only deal with plain ASCII A-Z/a-z.
regards, tom lane
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