Stefan Kunick wrote:
> I installed postgres with the encoding 1252. After this, i started the
> program createdb (createdb -E LATIN1 -O postgres -p 5555 -U postgres). The
> program stopped with the error message: createdb: database creation failed.
> Error: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale German_Germany.1252
> DETAIL: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding WIN1252.
>
> With the former version 8.2, i can create a database with other encoding
You could, but the result wouldn't have worked correctly. You need to pick
locales and encodings that match. This was always true, but not it is
enforced.
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Peter Eisentraut
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