From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: upgrade from FC9 / PG8.3 to C7 / PG 9.6 - utf8
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:29:51 +0000
Message-ID: <201901181429.51278.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> (raw)
I'm performing a long overdue upgrade of a Fedora 9 / Postgresql 8.3 to a
Centos 7 / Postgresql 9.6 system.
I'm just going though the config files to check that everything is okay and
I've found a discrepency regarding language settings. I realise things have
progressed a lot since 2008 when I built this server, so I wonder what is the
right thing to do moving forward. The old system has
# These settings are initialized by initdb, but they can be changed.
lc_messages = 'en_GB' # locale for system error message strings
lc_monetary = 'en_GB' # locale for monetary formatting
lc_numeric = 'en_GB' # locale for number formatting
lc_time = 'en_GB' # locale for time formatting
while the new system has
lc_messages = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for system error message strings
lc_monetary = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for monetary formatting
lc_numeric = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for number formatting
lc_time = 'en_GB.UTF-8' # locale for time formatting
Am I best changing the new system to match the old one?
If I leave the settings as they are, enabling the utf-8, how will it affect
a) the pg_dumpall / pg_recover process
b) using the database moving forward?
Gary
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