Re: Will PostgreSQL 8.4 allow having different encoding databases on a same PostgreSQL server ?

Bruno Baguette wrote:
> Currently, I have several PostgreSQL databases, some of them are using
> LATIN1 encoding, some of them are using UTF-8 encoding.
>
> In order to have theses two encoding, we had to install two PostgreSQL
> server on two different ports. One is for LATIN1 databases and one is
> for UTF-8 databases. (I known there is a workaround which allows to mix
> several databases encoding them on a same PostgreSQL server, by
> specifying "C" locale to initdb).
>
> I've heard some rumors on freenode stating that PostgreSQL 8.4. will
> allow to have several databases encoding. Did I understand right ?

You can already do that, just use

CREATE DATABASE dbname ENCODING=anyencoding

Yours,
Laurenz Albe