From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201105051625.p45GP9m23671@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: characters or bytes?
In-Reply-To: <4D8E66B9.8030501@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Susanne Ebrecht <susanne@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 12:25:09 -0400 (EDT)
CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Susanne Ebrecht wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> During translating start.sgml - I found a sentence where I am not sure
> if it is correct.
> 
> tutorial-createdb.html
> 
> Second paragraph below the "permission denied to create a database" 
> error message there is
> the sentence:
> 
> " You can also create databases with other names. PostgreSQL allows
> you to create any number of databases at a given site. Database names
> must have an alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 characters
> in length. ..."
> 
> Really 63 characters?
> Shouldn't it be 63 bytes?
> 

Susanne, not sure you received a reply, but the documention has been
corrected to say "bytes".  Thanks.

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