Re: cyrillic and sort order (ORDER BY)

From: Radoslaw Stachowiak <radek(at)alter(dot)pl>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cyrillic and sort order (ORDER BY)
Date: 2001-01-07 16:41:45
Message-ID: 20010107174145.O3836@blue.alter.pl
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*** Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [Tuesday, 02.January.2001, 18:38 -0500]:
> To enlarge a little more: the most common way to get burnt by this is
> to have different LC_xxx environment variables when starting the
> postmaster from a boot script as you do when running initdb or starting
> the postmaster from an interactive shell. Best to explicitly set the
> desired locale in the script that fires up the postmaster.
>
> Postgres 7.1 solves this problem by locking down a database's locale at
> initdb time. Subsequent postmaster runs will adopt the LC_COLLATE value
> that was prevalent when initdb ran, no matter what their environment is.
>

Could You write what is suggested path to change encoding from SQLASCII to
another (ISO88592) when I'd upgrade to 7.1 from 7.03 ?

I know have SQLASCII, but I'll need to change it to sth more suitable.

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radoslaw.stachowiak.........................................http://alter.pl/

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