Re: confused with encodings

> Tatsuo,
> 
> recently I tried to understand why I can't get sorting works properly
> with cyrillic characters  in UTF8 datbase. I figure out the
> reason of my confusion - I thought I could specify different encodings
> for different databases and these encodings will be used in text operations
> (sort, upper,lower), not just for conversion.
> But, actually, the only encoding is important for text operations - the one
> specified with 'initdb' command ! Is't true ?
> 
> If so, it's a big issue :)
> 
> After I created separate storage for unicode (initdb -E utf8) and
> restarted postmaster I got success with 'order by', but
> upper(), lower() functions still fails.

[I assume you enable the locale support.]

Dont't ask me. These are locale support problems.
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Tatsuo Ishii