Hello,
During translating the docs I found the following sentence
in the tutorial section about createdb:
"Database names must have an alphabetic first character
and are limited to 63 characters"
I wondered - really characters? shouldn't it be bytes?
I just tested - creating a database by using German umlauts
let me get sure - it are bytes not characters.
Here is the patch with the correction - I just changed the word
characters into bytes.
Susanne
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
index 766dd7e..4275bf8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create database
You can also create databases with other names.
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> allows you to create any
number of databases at a given site. Database names must have an
- alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 characters in
+ alphabetic first character and are limited to 63 bytes in
length. A convenient choice is to create a database with the same
name as your current user name. Many tools assume that database
name as the default, so it can save you some typing. To create
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