Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 1 Installer available for download

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksander Kmetec [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 11 August 2004 05:00
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 
> 1 Installer available for download
> 
> Dave Page wrote:
> >>initdb.log says:
> >>initdb: "WIN1250" is not a valid server encoding name
> > 
> > OK, it would seem that some of the encodings listed in 
> > src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c are not listed as supported on 
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/multibyte.html (that 
> > includes win1250). I have limited the list to exactly what's in the 
> > documentation.
> 
> I've also noticed a problem with locales.
> 
> Installer uses a static list of locales copied from MSDN. 
> Because of this, not all locales installed on the current 
> system are listed as available. Also, if you only supply a 
> locale name to initdb, then the default encoding for that 
> locale is used as value for lc_* settings 
> (German_Germany.1252, Slovenian_Slovenia.1250, ...). This 
> causes errors in sorting order and wrong return values for 
> locale dependant functions when your database encoding 
> differs from locale encoding.
> 
> If there's nobody else working on this yet, I can try doing 
> it myself, since I already have a piece of code which 
> retrieves all installed locales and code pages for the current system.

Please feel free to give it a go. Patches from anyone are welcome :-)

Regards, Dave

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