Hello -
We are working with RT 3.8. Our DBAs are upgrading our PostgreSQL
installation to 8.4.4. I was asked if the rt3 database, currently encoded
as UTF8 could be changed to either latin1 or sql_ascii. I’ve been searching
the list archives and RT’s docs and can’t seem to find a database encoding
recommendation. So,would anyone offer advice on which encoding method to
use or avoid? Any experience with PostgreSQL 8.4.4 to share?
Sharon
Why would you want this?!On 2010-07-28 04:13:48PM -0400, Sharon.Belliveau@frb.gov wrote:
Hello -
We are working with RT 3.8. Our DBAs are upgrading our PostgreSQL
installation to 8.4.4. I was asked if the rt3 database, currently encoded
as UTF8 could be changed to either latin1 or sql_ascii. I’ve been searching
the list archives and RT’s docs and can’t seem to find a database encoding
recommendation. So,would anyone offer advice on which encoding method to
use or avoid? Any experience with PostgreSQL 8.4.4 to share?Sharon
List info: The rt-devel Archives
Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428
Per the DBA:
The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to LATIN1.
The default text search configuration will be set to “english”.
We RT admins would like to keep the encoding that will work best with RT
and not be constrained for future RT upgrades. So, will we incur problems
if we give in to setting the encoding to LATIN1 or SQL_ASCII?
-SharonFrom: “Peter C. Lai” peter@simons-rock.edu
Cc: rt-devel@lists.bestpractical.com
Date: 07/28/2010 05:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Rt-devel] PostgreSQL 8.4.4 and rt3 encoding
Why would you want this?!
Hello -
We are working with RT 3.8. Our DBAs are upgrading our PostgreSQL
installation to 8.4.4. I was asked if the rt3 database, currently
encoded
as UTF8 could be changed to either latin1 or sql_ascii. I’ve been
searching
the list archives and RT’s docs and can’t seem to find a database
encoding
recommendation. So,would anyone offer advice on which encoding method to
use or avoid? Any experience with PostgreSQL 8.4.4 to share?Sharon
List info:
The rt-devel Archives
Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428
Is there a reason why your DBA does not set the default encoding to UTF8?
It has been the standard default encoding throughout the entire 8.x postgresql
series.
Is there a reason why you cannot create the RT db with UTF8 before doing the
restore?On 2010-07-29 09:54:15AM -0400, Sharon.Belliveau@frb.gov wrote:
Per the DBA:
The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to LATIN1.
The default text search configuration will be set to “english”.We RT admins would like to keep the encoding that will work best with RT
and not be constrained for future RT upgrades. So, will we incur problems
if we give in to setting the encoding to LATIN1 or SQL_ASCII?-Sharon
From: “Peter C. Lai” peter@simons-rock.edu
Cc: rt-devel@lists.bestpractical.com
Date: 07/28/2010 05:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Rt-devel] PostgreSQL 8.4.4 and rt3 encoding
Why would you want this?!
On 2010-07-28 04:13:48PM -0400, Sharon.Belliveau@frb.gov wrote:
Hello -
We are working with RT 3.8. Our DBAs are upgrading our PostgreSQL
installation to 8.4.4. I was asked if the rt3 database, currently
encoded
as UTF8 could be changed to either latin1 or sql_ascii. I’ve been
searching
the list archives and RT’s docs and can’t seem to find a database
encoding
recommendation. So,would anyone offer advice on which encoding method to
use or avoid? Any experience with PostgreSQL 8.4.4 to share?Sharon
List info:
The rt-devel Archives–
Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428
Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428
Peter -
Not sure why the DBAs want LATIN1 or SQL_ASCII. They state "none of the
other databases are UTF8’.
The DBAs just allowed me to be a preliminary tester. So, on our test
server, I created the RT db with the default encoding, LATIN1. Then
manually set the encoding to UTF8.
#create database rt3 encoding = ‘UTF8’;
ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US
DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.
#create database rt3 encoding = ‘LATIN1’;
… created database from dump…
rt3=# SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
SET
rt3=# SHOW client_encoding;
client_encoding
UTF8
I created a few tickets in on our development webserver using the new DB.
Nothing hinkey so far.
Thanks for following up…
SharonFrom: “Peter C. Lai” peter@simons-rock.edu
Cc: rt-devel@lists.bestpractical.com
Date: 07/29/2010 01:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Rt-devel] PostgreSQL 8.4.4 and rt3 encoding
Is there a reason why your DBA does not set the default encoding to UTF8?
It has been the standard default encoding throughout the entire 8.x
postgresql
series.
Is there a reason why you cannot create the RT db with UTF8 before doing
the
restore?
Per the DBA:
The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to LATIN1.
The default text search configuration will be set to “english”.We RT admins would like to keep the encoding that will work best with RT
and not be constrained for future RT upgrades. So, will we incur
problems
if we give in to setting the encoding to LATIN1 or SQL_ASCII?-Sharon
From: “Peter C. Lai” peter@simons-rock.edu
Date: 07/28/2010 05:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Rt-devel] PostgreSQL 8.4.4 and rt3 encoding
Why would you want this?!
Hello -
We are working with RT 3.8. Our DBAs are upgrading our PostgreSQL
installation to 8.4.4. I was asked if the rt3 database, currently
encoded
as UTF8 could be changed to either latin1 or sql_ascii. I’ve been
searching
the list archives and RT’s docs and can’t seem to find a database
encoding
recommendation. So,would anyone offer advice on which encoding method
to
use or avoid? Any experience with PostgreSQL 8.4.4 to share?Sharon
List info:
The rt-devel Archives–
Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428
Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428