Hi all, >>> It sounds like for the near future my best bet would be to just set the >>> install scripts to configure postgres (which is used only for openstack) to >>> default to utf-8. Is that a fair summation?
Yes. UTF-8 is a reasonable default value. Thanks, Roman On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Chris Friesen <chris.frie...@windriver.com> wrote: > On 03/10/2014 02:02 PM, Ben Nemec wrote: > >> We just had a discussion about this in #openstack-oslo too. See the >> discussion starting at 2014-03-10T16:32:26 >> >> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-oslo/%23openstack-oslo.2014-03-10.log > > > In that discussion dhellmann said, "I wonder if we make any assumptions > elsewhere that we are using utf8 in the database" > > For what it's worth I came across > "https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Encoding", which proposed a rule: > > "All external text that is not explicitly encoded (database storage, > commandline arguments, etc.) should be presumed to be encoded as utf-8." > > >> While it seems Heat does require utf8 (or at least matching character >> sets) across all tables, I'm not sure the current solution is good. It >> seems like we may want a migration to help with this for anyone who >> might already have mismatched tables. There's a lot of overlap between >> that discussion and how to handle Postgres with this, I think. > > > I'm lucky enough to be able to fix this now, I don't have any real > deployments yet. > > It sounds like for the near future my best bet would be to just set the > install scripts to configure postgres (which is used only for openstack) to > default to utf-8. Is that a fair summation? > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev