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* characters or bytes? @ 2011-03-26 22:20 Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Susanne Ebrecht @ 2011-03-26 22:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-docs 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 -- Susanne Ebrecht - 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services www.2ndQuadrant.com ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 5+ messages in thread
* patch for createdb section in tutorial @ 2011-03-27 10:41 Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> parent: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Susanne Ebrecht @ 2011-03-27 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: [email protected]; +Cc: pgsql-docs Hello, During translating the docs I found the following sentence in the tutorial section about createdb: "Database names must have an alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 characters" I wondered - really characters? shouldn't it be bytes? I just tested - creating a database by using German umlauts let me get sure - it are bytes not characters. Here is the patch with the correction - I just changed the word characters into bytes. Susanne -- Susanne Ebrecht - 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services www.2ndQuadrant.com Attachments: [text/x-patch] doc_tutorial_createdb.patch (788B, 2-doc_tutorial_createdb.patch) download | inline diff: diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml index 766dd7e..4275bf8 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create database You can also create databases with other names. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 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 + alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 bytes in length. A convenient choice is to create a database with the same name as your current user name. Many tools assume that database name as the default, so it can save you some typing. To create ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: patch for createdb section in tutorial @ 2011-03-28 01:30 Robert Haas <[email protected]> parent: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Robert Haas @ 2011-03-28 01:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]; pgsql-docs On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > During translating the docs I found the following sentence > in the tutorial section about createdb: > > "Database names must have an alphabetic first character > and are limited to 63 characters" > > I wondered - really characters? shouldn't it be bytes? > > I just tested - creating a database by using German umlauts > let me get sure - it are bytes not characters. > > Here is the patch with the correction - I just changed the word > characters into bytes. Committed and back-patched all the way. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: characters or bytes? @ 2011-05-05 16:25 Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> parent: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Bruce Momjian @ 2011-05-05 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-docs 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. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: characters or bytes? @ 2011-05-06 10:15 Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]> parent: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Susanne Ebrecht @ 2011-05-06 10:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-docs On 05.05.2011 18:25, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> 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. Bruce, that is nice. I got the answer already a few minutes after asking. Anyway, thanks for taking care and replying, Susanne -- Susanne Ebrecht - 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services www.2ndQuadrant.com ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 5+ messages in thread
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