Perhaps this is some Solaris-specific change he is seeing.
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Craig Ringer wrote:
> [re-posting as I mistakenly sent this only to the OP]
>
> On 09/04/10 16:49, Wolfgang.Koenig wrote:
> > initdb stores default client_encoding from environment-variable
> >
> >
> > Postgres Version: 8.4.3 and 8.3.6
> > Operating System: Sun Solaris 5.10 and SuseEnterprise 9
> >
> > When a database is initialized with the initdb-command, the default
> > client_enconding, which will be stored in the DB, depends on the value
> > of the environment-variable PGCLIENTENCODING at the time of running
> > initdb. This behaviour is not documented.
> > Furthermore I didn't find a command to change this
> > default client_encoding in the database later.
> > The default client_encoding does not depend on the database encoding!
>
>
> I cannot reproduce this issue based on the test script you've provided.
> However, I was testing on Ubuntu 9.10, not a vanilla 8.4, so this
> can't be taken as definitive.
>
> $ env | grep PG
> $ PGPORT=7654 psql -U postgres postgres -c 'show client_encoding;'
> client_encoding
> -----------------
> UTF8
> (1 row)
>
> $ PGPORT=7654 psql -U postgres postgres
> (snip blah blah)
> postgres=# show port ;
> port
> ------
> 7654
> (1 row)
> postgres=# \l
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access
> privileges
> -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
> postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 |
> template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
> :
> postgres=CTc/postgres
> template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
> :
> postgres=CTc/postgres
> (3 rows)
>
>
>
> $ PGCLIENTENCODING="WIN1250" PGPORT=7654 psql -U postgres postgres -c
> 'show client_encoding;'
> client_encoding
> -----------------
> WIN1250
> (1 row)
>
>
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