On Sunday, May 22, 2016 01:30:32 AM waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 04:41:44AM +0000, J. Roeleveld wrote > > > Quick reply (longer one later) > > 2nd run looks better. > > > > The output is from the supplied scripts. For Gentoo, use the > > /etc/init.d script. That will call the other one where necessary. > > > > About the codepage. What does "eselect locale list" show? > > In other words, which locale do you actually use? > > en_US.iso88591 > > [i3][waltdnes][~] eselect locale list > Available targets for the LANG variable: > [1] C > [2] POSIX > [3] en_US > [4] en_US.iso88591 * > [5] en_US.utf8 > [ ] (free form) > > I expect to be storing a lot of numeric data in postgresql, but not > much text data, let alone, non-English text data. I live in Toronto, > Canada. ISO8859-1 can handle ASCII (English), and accented Latin-1 > characters that exist in Canadian French.
In order for the configuration to actually be able to configure the database to handle UTF8, you need to run at least UTF8 or a superset. I always run my servers in UTF8. If you will not require non-ISO8859-1 characters, you should be ok with your current setup. -- Joost
