X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE073A5E09 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11349-01 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:50:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server226.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.226]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBCA3A5DFC for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:50:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO spooky) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 6749000 for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:51:33 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: PostgreSQL Docs Subject: Doc patch needed: encodings? Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:46:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412051546.53124.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200412/7 X-Sequence-Number: 2703 Folks, I've noticed in recent testing that current versions of both RedHat and SuSE default to encodings of "en_US.UTF-8" in the US. Presumably they do something corresponding in other countries. I think this means that in the basic install-from-source instructions, we need to warn people to compile with --locale='C'. I know it caught me by surprise when indexing for LIKE stopped working, and I wasted a lot of time hunting for a PG bug when it was my SuSE upgrade at fault. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco