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! This is a small shell-script to show this behaviour. #!/bin/bash -x # PGHOST="localhost" PGPORT=7654 PGDATABASE=postgres PGUSER=postgres export PGHOST PGPORT PGDATABASE PGUSER export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib binpath=/usr/local/pgsql/bin dir=/data/DB-2 $binpath/pg_ctl stop -D $dir/pg-base -m fast -o '-p 7654' # # remove Database # rm -r $dir/pg-base 2> /dev/null sleep 1 mkdir $dir/pg-base 2> /dev/null PGCLIENTENCODING="WIN1250" export PGCLIENTENCODING $binpath/initdb --encoding=UTF8 -D $dir/pg-base $binpath/pg_ctl start -D $dir/pg-base -l $dir/pg-server.log -o '-p 7654' sleep 5 unset PGCLIENTENCODING # IMPORTANT !! $binpath/psql -c "select version();" $binpath/psql -c "show client_encoding;" -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
