Re: Choosing default collation/ctype

Hi,

On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi, ALL,
>> In the CREATE DATABASE statement I can use encoding/collation/ctype.
>>
>> I can retrieve the encoding list with:
>>
>> [code]
>> SELECT pg_encoding_to_char( conforencoding ) AS name FROM pg_conversion
>> [/code]
>>
>> And then I can get a list of collations/ctypes with:
>>
>> [code]
>> SELECT collname, collencoding, collprovider collctype FROM pg_collation
>> [/code]
>>
>> And then add a logic in my UI to switch collations/ctypes based on encoding.
>>
>> However, what I wonder is:
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>> Is there a way to select a default collation/ctype for a specific encoding?
>>
>> Or maybe I'm overthinking it and I should let the user choose and if
>> nothing - just keep those 2 as "Default" and let the server pick it
>> up. However it will be weird, especially from me as a user POV.
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>
> You know your data, not us. The first question I'd try to is "how much client text data is not compatible with bog-standard UTF8?"

I don't.
Just trying to create a generic tool to use for people everywhere...

Thank you.

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