Re: characters or bytes?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Susanne Ebrecht <susanne(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: characters or bytes?
Date: 2011-05-05 16:25:09
Message-ID: 201105051625.p45GP9m23671@momjian.us
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Susanne Ebrecht wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During translating start.sgml - I found a sentence where I am not sure
> if it is correct.
>
> tutorial-createdb.html
>
> Second paragraph below the "permission denied to create a database"
> error message there is
> the sentence:
>
> " You can also create databases with other names. PostgreSQL allows
> you to create any number of databases at a given site. Database names
> must have an alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 characters
> in length. ..."
>
> Really 63 characters?
> Shouldn't it be 63 bytes?
>

Susanne, not sure you received a reply, but the documention has been
corrected to say "bytes". Thanks.

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