[ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I just used the upper(text) function on a database which is utf8 encoded and which has spanish text. All of the regular characters were properly converted, except for characters which had accents.

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > I just used the upper(text) function on a database which is utf8 encoded and > which has spanish text. > > All of the regular characters were properly converted, except for characters > which had accents. What are your various LC_* var

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
CREATE DATABASE ishield WITH OWNER = postgres ENCODING = 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE = 'C' LC_CTYPE = 'C' CONNECTION LIMIT = -1; > -Original Message- > From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 3:17 PM > To: Benjamin Krajmalnik

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
I'd try creating a db with en_US or even better whatever is spanish encoding for lc_collate and see what happens. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > CREATE DATABASE ishield >  WITH OWNER = postgres >       ENCODING = 'UTF8' >       LC_COLLATE = 'C' >       LC_CTYPE = 'C

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Unfortunately, the database has to accept data in multiple languages, since it is a SaaS offering. It is not a big deal - I just found it interesting that it did not uppercase the accented letters. The reason I came across it is that I created a table of all the ISO countries. I had found a NyS

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > Unfortunately, the database has to accept data in multiple languages, since > it is a SaaS offering. The encoding determines that, not the collation. UTF-8 allows you to insert various languages in that encoding. > It is not a big d

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Benjamin Krajmalnik > wrote: >> Unfortunately, the database has to accept data in multiple languages, since >> it is a SaaS offering. > > The encoding determines that, not the collation.  UTF-8 allows you t

[ADMIN] postgresql-server-8.4.4-1PGDG.el5 - ERROR: could not write block 503414 of temporary file: No space le,ft on device

2010-07-26 Thread Irene Barg
System info: Lancelot 1874-T dual Intel Xeon(Nehalem-DP) SATAII 24GB RAM, CentOS release 5.4 (Final), postgresql-server-8.4.4-1PGDG hi, We installed a fresh version of postgresql-server-8.4.4-1 using RPMs from PGDG. We are seeing the following errors, if the system trys to do 'anything' sort

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql-server-8.4.4-1PGDG.el5 - ERROR: could not write block 503414 of temporary file: No space le,ft on device

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Hunsaker
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 16:01, Irene Barg wrote: >> 2010-07-26 11:33:33 MST system_admin metadataERROR:  could not write block >> 503414 of temporary file: No space le >> ft on device >> 2010-07-26 11:33:33 MST system_admin metadataHINT:  Perhaps out of disk >> space? >> -bash-3.2$ df -h >> Files

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql-server-8.4.4-1PGDG.el5 - ERROR: could not write block 503414 of temporary file: No space le,ft on device

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Alex Hunsaker writes: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 16:01, Irene Barg wrote: > 2010-07-26 11:33:33 MST system_admin metadataERROR:  could not write block > 503414 of temporary file: No space le > ft on device > 2010-07-26 11:33:33 MST system_admin metadataHINT:  Perhaps out of disk > space? > Ok s

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Benjamin Krajmalnik's message of lun jul 26 17:03:54 -0400 2010: > I just used the upper(text) function on a database which is utf8 encoded > and which has spanish text. > > All of the regular characters were properly converted, except for > characters which had accents. FWIW it wor

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Benjamin Krajmalnik's message of lun jul 26 17:03:54 -0400 2010: >> I just used the upper(text) function on a database which is utf8 encoded >> and which has spanish text. >> >> All of the regular characters were properly conve

Re: [ADMIN] upper and UTF-8

2010-07-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Scott Marlowe's message of lun jul 26 23:12:08 -0400 2010: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: > > I suspect that the problem is an incorrect client_encoding setting. > > Yeah, OP had set lc_collate to C under the mistaken impression that > collation controll