Re: Changing locale/charset

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Martin Moore <martin(dot)moore(at)avbrief(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changing locale/charset
Date: 2018-01-22 22:35:13
Message-ID: df7b7a12-0eaf-ccad-ea95-bd79ff0faa34@2ndquadrant.com
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On 1/22/18 16:18, Martin Moore wrote:
> I created a 10.1 cluster on Debian using UTF8.
> I’d like to convert it to LATIN1, but am having various issues. So, it’s probably easiest to start again (I have a dump of the DB).
>
> To ensure I get it right, what is the correct way to create a cluster with LATIN1 encoding, how to remove the existing cluster and how to ensure I have the right settings for LOCALE etc. in the OS?

pg_lsclusters
pg_dropcluster VERSION NAME
pg_createcluster VERSION NAME --locale=xx_XX

where xx_XX is chosen by you. You previous cluster probably had a
locale of xx_XX.utf8, so it had the UTF8 encoding.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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