Tomas Vondra wrote:
Hi,
> I've encountered a strange problem. We have a PG 8.0.x database cluster
> (in the sense used in initdb, i.e. bunch of databases) created with
> UNICODE encoding, namely cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale.
>
> When a database is created with a different encoding (in our case it's
> LATIN2) the string comparison doesn't work correctly.
Actually this is sort of expected. Your locale configuration expects a
certain encoding; all databases should be created using that encoding
for string comparison to work properly. What definitely is a bug is the
fact that CREATE DATABASE allows you to create a database with an
encoding different from the one defined by initdb.
The conclusion is that you should create your databases using UTF-8
encoding if you are using cs_CZ.UTF-8, otherwise it won't work as
expected.
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