default db

Sandro Dentella wrote:

I'm using debian and I don't understand how to create template1 on
installation of postgresql with a preferred encoding.

Is it safe to just dump/restore template1 with different encoding?

Or drop template1, and then recreate it from template0 with the
defaults you want. I gather that's the point of template0. See the
Fine Manual:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/manage-ag-
templatedbs.html

- John D. Burger
MITRE

On 22.05.2007 14:02, Sandro Dentella wrote:

I see that the default encoding for a db is taken from template1.

I'm using debian and I don't understand how to create template1 on
installation of postgresql with a preferred encoding.

Is it safe to just dump/restore template1 with different encoding?

Default encoding is taken from the cluster locale. Debian sure has some
fancy wrapper scripts for that, but

initdb -D $PGDATA --locale='en_US.utf8'

is the command to create a new cluster with another locale. Chose one
from locale -a

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Regards,
Hannes Dorbath