Thread: BUG #2719: configure script does not accept --enable-locale --enable-multibyte=UNICODE options

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      2719
Logged by:          Mareks Malnacs
Email address:      mareksm@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.2 beta 2
Operating system:   macos x and solaris x86
Description:        configure script does not accept --enable-locale
--enable-multibyte=UNICODE options
Details:

I've downloaded 8.2 beta 2 from
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.2beta2/   (from 24.10.2006) and now
configure script forbids me to use following options:

--enable-locale --enable-multibyte=UNICODE --enable-odbc --with-java
--enable-unicode-conversion

From which w/o --enable-multibyte I can't use unicode (utf8) while creating
new database installation:

initdb -E UNICODE -A password -W

This command says that it will use C encoding instead of specified UNICODE,
which later on results in not usable database with a lot of localized
strings.

"Mareks Malnacs" <mareksm@gmail.com> writes:
> configure script forbids me to use following options:

> --enable-locale --enable-multibyte=UNICODE --enable-odbc --with-java
> --enable-unicode-conversion

All those options have been obsolete for a long time.

> initdb -E UNICODE -A password -W
> This command says that it will use C encoding instead of specified UNICODE,

You sure you aren't confused about locale vs. encoding?  You want to
specify a locale setting too, probably.

            regards, tom lane

Mareks Malnacs wrote:
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      2719
> Logged by:          Mareks Malnacs
> Email address:      mareksm@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2 beta 2
> Operating system:   macos x and solaris x86
> Description:        configure script does not accept --enable-locale
> --enable-multibyte=UNICODE options
> Details:
>
> I've downloaded 8.2 beta 2 from
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.2beta2/   (from 24.10.2006) and now
> configure script forbids me to use following options:
>
> --enable-locale --enable-multibyte=UNICODE --enable-odbc --with-java
> --enable-unicode-conversion

all of those options are not supported/necessary anymore (java and odbc
are now packaged seperately and the others are useless for a while now)

>
> From which w/o --enable-multibyte I can't use unicode (utf8) while creating
> new database installation:
>
> initdb -E UNICODE -A password -W
>
> This command says that it will use C encoding instead of specified UNICODE,
> which later on results in not usable database with a lot of localized
> strings.

you probably want to set an appropriate (utf8) locale in your
environment too - and note that the actual error likely says "The
database cluster will be initialized with locale C" not "encoding".
Anyway that does not have anything to do with --enable-multibyte ...


Stefan