Re: initdb - encoding question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: initdb - encoding question
Date
Msg-id 200712051111.54344.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to initdb - encoding question  ("Josh Harrison" <joshques@gmail.com>)
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Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007 schrieb Josh Harrison:
> initdb -E UTF8 -D /export/home/josh/postgres8.3/pgsql/data

> The database cluster will be initialized with locales
>   COLLATE:  en_CA.ISO8859-1
>   CTYPE:    en_CA.ISO8859-1
>   MESSAGES: C
>   MONETARY: en_CA.ISO8859-1
>   NUMERIC:  en_CA.ISO8859-1
>   TIME:     C
> initdb: encoding mismatch
> The encoding you selected (UTF8) and the encoding that the
> selected locale uses (LATIN1) do not match.  This would lead to
> misbehavior in various character string processing functions.
> Rerun initdb and either do not specify an encoding explicitly,
> or choose a matching combination.
>
> Why do I get this error?

It's an encoding mismatch.  The encoding you selected (UTF8) and the encoding
that the selected locale uses (LATIN1) do not match.  This would lead to
misbehavior in various character string processing functions.

> How can I solve this?

Rerun initdb and either do not specify an encoding explicitly, or choose a
matching combination.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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