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-  
-  PostgreSQL Charsets README
-  Josef Balatka, 
-  Draft v0.1, Tue Jul 20 15:49:07 CEST 1999
-  
-  This document is a brief overview of the national charsets support
-  that PostgreSQL ver. 6.5 has implemented. Various compilation options
-  and setup tips are mentioned here to be helpful in the particular use.
-  
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  
-  Table of Contents
-  
-  1. Locale awareness
-  
-  2. Single-byte charsets recoding
-  
-  3. Multi-byte support/recoding
-  
-  4. Credits
-  
-  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  
-  1. Locale awareness
-  
-     PostgreSQL server supports both locale aware and locale not aware
-     (default) operational modes. You can determine this mode during the
-     configuration stage of the installation with --enable-locale option.
-  
-     If you don't use --enable-locale, the multi-language code will not be
-     compiled and PostgreSQL will behave as an ASCII compliant application.
-     This mode is useful for its speed but only provided that you don't
-     have to consider national specific chars.
-
-     With --enable-locale you will get a locale aware server using LC_*
-     environment variables to determine how to process national specifics.
-     In this case strcoll(3) and similar functions are used internally
-     so speed is somewhat lower.
-  
-     Notice here that --enable-locale is sufficient when all your clients
-     use the same single-byte encoding as the database server does.
-  
-     When your clients use encoding different from the server than you have
-     to use, moreover, --enable-recode or --with-mb= options on
-     the server side or a particular client that does recoding itself (e.g.
-     there exists a PostgreSQL ODBC driver for Win32 with various Cyrillic
-     encoding capability). Option --with-mb= is necessary for the
-     multi-byte charsets support.
-  
-  
-  2. Single-byte charsets recoding
-  
-     You can set up this feature with --enable-recode option. This option
-     is described as 'enable Cyrillic recode support' which doesn't express
-     all its power. It can be used for *any* single-byte charset recoding.
-  
-     This method uses charset.conf file located in the $PGDATA directory.
-     It's a typical configuration text file where spaces and newlines
-     separate items and records and # specifies comments. Three keywords
-     with the following syntax are recognized here:
-  
-       BaseCharset 
-       RecodeTable          
-       HostCharset     
-  
-     BaseCharset defines encoding of the database server. All charset
-     names are only used for mapping inside the charset.conf so you can
-     freely use typing-friendly names.
-     
-     RecodeTable records specify translation table between server and client.
-     The file name is relative to the $PGDATA directory. Table file format
-     is very simple. There are no keywords and characters are represented by
-     a pair of decimal or hexadecimal (0x prefixed) values on single lines:
-  
-         
-  
-     HostCharset records define IP address and charset. You can use a single
-     IP address, an IP mask range starting from the given address or an IP
-     interval (e.g. 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.100/24, 192.168.1.20-192.168.1.40)
-  
-     The charset.conf is always processed up to the end, so you can easily
-     specify exceptions from the previous rules. In the src/data you will
-     find charset.conf example and a few recoding tables.
-  
-     As this solution is based on the client's IP address / charset mapping
-     there are obviously some restrictions as well. You can't use different
-     encoding on the same host at the same time. It's also inconvenient when
-     you boot your client hosts into more operating systems.
-     Nevertheless, when these restrictions are not limiting and you don't
-     need multi-byte chars than it's a simple and effective solution.
-  
-  
-  3. Multi-byte support/recoding
-  
-     It's a new generation of charset encoding in PostgreSQL designed as a
-     more complex solution supporting both single-byte and multi-byte chars.
-     You can set up this feature with --with-mb= option.
-  
-     There is no IP mapping file and recoding is controlled through the new
-     SQL statements. Recoding tables are included in the code. Many national
-     charsets are already supported and further will follow.
-  
-     See doc/README.mb, doc/README.mb.jp to get detailed instruction on how
-     to use the multibyte support. In the file doc/README.locale there is
-     a particular instruction on usage of the multibyte support with Cyrillic.
-  
-  
-  4. Credits
-  
-     I'd like to thank the PostgreSQL development team and all contributors
-     for creating PostgreSQL. Thanks to Oleg Bartunov, Oleg Broytmann and
-     Tatsuo Ishii for opening the door into the multi-language world.
-  

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-===========
-1999 Jul 21
-===========
-
-   Josef Balatka,  asked us not to remove RECODE and sent me
-Czech ISO-8859-2 -> WIN-1250 translation table.
-   RECODE is no longer contains just Cyrillic RECODE and will stay in 
-PostgreSQL.
-
-   He also created some bits of documentation, mostly concerning RECODE -
-see README.Charsets.
-
-
-===========
-1999 Apr 14
-===========
-
-   Tatsuo Ishii  updated Multibyte support extending it
-to Cyrillic language. Now PostgreSQL supports KOI8-R, WIN-1251, ISO8859-5
-and CP866 (ALT) encodings.
-
-   Short instruction on using this feature follows. Longer discussion of
-Multibyte support is in README.mb.
-
-   WARNING! Now with Multibyte support Cyrillic RECODE declared obsolete
-and will be removed from Postgres. If you are using RECODE consider
-switching to Multibyte support.
-
-   Instructions on how to prepare Postgres for Cyrillic Multibyte support.
-   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-   First, you need to backup all your databases. I recommend to backup the
-entire Postgres directory, including binaries and libraries - thus you can
-easily restore if something goes wrong.
-
-   Dump you data: pg_dumpall > dump.db
-
-   Stop postmaster.
-
-   Configure, compile and install Postgres. (I'll mostly talk about KOI8-R
-encoding, this is just to make examples a little more clear; you can use
-any supported encoding.)
-
-   cd src
-   ./configure --enable-locale --with-mb=KOI8
-   make
-   make install
-
-   Make sure you've backed up your databases. Doublecheck your backup. I
-really mean it - make regular backups and test your backups sometimes by
-fake restore.
-
-   Remove your data directory (better, rename or move it).
-
-   Run initdb saying your primary encoding: initdb -e KOI8. If you omit
-encoding, primary encoding from configure will be taken.
-
-   Start postmaster.
-
-   Create databases: createdb -e KOI8. Again, you can omit encoding -
-default encoding will be used. You are not forced to use the same encoding
-for all your databases - you can create different databases with different
-encodings.
-
-   Load your data from the dump you've created: psql < dump.db
-
-   That's all! Now you are ready to enjoy the full power of Multibyte
-support.
-
-   To use Multibyte support you do not need to do something special - just
-execute your queries. If client program does not set encoding, it will get
-the data in database encoding. But client may ask Postgres to do automatic
-server-to-client and client-to-server conversions. There are 2 (two) ways
-client program declares its encoding:
-   1) client explicitly executes the query SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'win';
-   2) client started with environment variable set. Examples -
-using sh syntax:
-   PGCLIENTENCODING='win'; export PGCLIENTENCODING
-using csh syntax:
-   setenv PGCLIENTENCODING 'win'
-
-   Setting PGCLIENTENCODING even if you use same client encding as the
-database would omit an overhead of asking the database encoding while
-initiating the connection, so it is good idea to set it in any case.
-
-   Now you may run test suite and see Multibyte support in action. Go to
-.../src/test/locale and run
-   make clean all test-koi2win
-
-
-===========
-1998 Nov 20
-===========
-
-   I extended locale support, originally written by Oleg Bartunov
-. Now ORDER BY (if PostgreSQL configured with
---enable-locale) uses strcoll() for all text fields: char(n), varchar(n),
-text.
-
-   I included test suite .../src/test/locale. I didn't include this in
-the regression test because not so much people require locale support. Read
-.../src/test/locale/README for details on the test suite.
-
-   Many thanks to Oleg Bartunov ([email protected]) and Thomas G. Lockhart
-([email protected]) for hints, tips, help and discussion.
-
-Oleg.

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-  
-   
-    Describes the available language and character set support in
-    Postgres.
-   
-  
+
+ Localization</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <abstract></div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   Describes the available localization features from the point of</div>
<div class="diff add">+   view of the administrator.</div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </abstract></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">   <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-   <productname>Postgres</productname> supports <span class="marked">non-ASCII character</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-   sets with two approaches: </div>
<div class="diff add">+   <productname>Postgres</productname> supports <span class="marked">localization with</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+   three approaches:</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">    <itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      Using locale features in underlying</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      system libraries. This allows single-byte character sets to be</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      configured with a locale-specific collation order, provided that</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      the underlying system supports the required locale. This</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      technique supports only one character set per server, and can</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      not support multi-byte character sets.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      Using the locale features of the operating system to provide</div>
<div class="diff add">+      locale-specific collation order, number formatting, and other</div>
<div class="diff add">+      aspects.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">      </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       Using explicit multiple-byte character sets defined in the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <productname>Postgres</productname> server. These character sets</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      are also known to some client libraries. The number of character</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      sets is fixed at the time the server is compiled, and internal</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      operations such as string comparisons require expansion of each</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      character into a 32-bit word.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <productname>Postgres</productname> server to support languages</div>
<div class="diff add">+      that require more characters than will fit into a single byte,</div>
<div class="diff add">+      and to provide character set recoding between client and server.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      The number of supported character sets is fixed at the time the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      server is compiled, and internal operations such as string</div>
<div class="diff add">+      comparisons require expansion of each character into a 32-bit</div>
<div class="diff add">+      word.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      Single byte character recoding provides a more light-weight</div>
<div class="diff add">+      solution for users of multiple, yet single-byte character sets.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">      </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">    </itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff ctx">   </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <sect1 id="locale"></div>
<div class="diff add">+  <title>Locale Support
+  
+  
+   Locale support refers to an application respecting
+   cultural preferences regarding alphabets, sorting, number
+   formatting, etc.  PostgreSQL uses the standard ISO
+   C and POSIX-like locale facilities provided by the server operating
+   system.  For additional information refer the documentation of your
+   system.
+  
+
+  
+   Overview</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Locale support is not build into <productname>PostgreSQL</> by</div>
<div class="diff add">+    default; to enable it, supply the <option>--enable-locale</> option</div>
<div class="diff add">+    to the <filename>configure</> script:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<informalexample></div>
<div class="diff add">+<screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+<prompt>$ </><userinput>./configure --enable-locale</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+</informalexample></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Locale support only affects the server; all clients are compatible</div>
<div class="diff add">+    with servers with or without locale support.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    The information about which particular cultural rules to use is</div>
<div class="diff add">+    determined by standard environment variables.  If you are getting</div>
<div class="diff add">+    localized behavior from other programs you probably have them set</div>
<div class="diff add">+    up already.  The simplest way to set the localization information</div>
<div class="diff add">+    is the <envar>LANG</> variable, for example:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+export LANG=sv_SE</div>
<div class="diff add">+</programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+    This sets the locale to Swedish (<literal>sv</>) as spoken in</div>
<div class="diff add">+    Sweden (<literal>SE</>).  Other possibilities might be</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (Canada,</div>
<div class="diff add">+    French).  If more than one character set can be useful for a locale</div>
<div class="diff add">+    then the specifications look like this:</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available under what</div>
<div class="diff add">+    names on your system depends on what was provided by the operating</div>
<div class="diff add">+    system vendor and what was installed.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Occasionally it is useful to mix rules from several locales, e.g.,</div>
<div class="diff add">+    use U.S. rules but Spanish messages.  To do that a set of</div>
<div class="diff add">+    environment variables exist that override the default of</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <envar>LANG</> for a particular category:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <informaltable></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <tgroup cols="2"></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <tbody></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>LC_COLLATE</></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>String sort order</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>LC_CTYPE</></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>Character classification (What is a letter? What is the upper-case equivalent of this letter?)</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>LC_MESSAGES</></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>Language of messages</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>LC_MONETARY</></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>Formatting of currency amounts</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>LC_NUMERIC</></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>Formatting of numbers</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <row></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>LC_TIME</></div>
<div class="diff add">+        <entry>Formatting of dates and times</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       </row></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </tbody></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </tgroup></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </informaltable></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <envar>LC_MESSAGES</> only affects the messages that come from the</div>
<div class="diff add">+    operating system, not <productname>PostgreSQL</>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    If you want the system to behave as if it had no locale support,</div>
<div class="diff add">+    use the special locale <literal>C</> or <literal>POSIX</>, or</div>
<div class="diff add">+    simply unset all locale related variables.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Once you have chosen a set of localization rules this way you must</div>
<div class="diff add">+    keep them fixed for any particular database cluster.  That means</div>
<div class="diff add">+    that the locales that were active when you ran <filename>initdb</></div>
<div class="diff add">+    must be kept the same when you start the postmaster.  Otherwise,</div>
<div class="diff add">+    the changed sort order can corrupt indexes or make your data</div>
<div class="diff add">+    disappear mysteriously.  It is currently not possible to change the</div>
<div class="diff add">+    locales after database initialization or to use more than one set</div>
<div class="diff add">+    of locales for a given database cluster.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <title>Benefits</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Locale support influences in particular the following features:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+       Sort order in <command>ORDER BY</> queries.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+       The <function>to_char</> family of functions</div>
<div class="diff add">+      </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+       The <literal>LIKE</> and <literal>~</> operators for pattern</div>
<div class="diff add">+       matching</div>
<div class="diff add">+      </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    The only severe drawback of using the locale support in</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <productname>PostgreSQL</> is its speed.  So use locale only if you</div>
<div class="diff add">+    actually need it.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <title>Problems</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    If locale support doesn't work in spite of the explanation above,</div>
<div class="diff add">+    check that the locale support in your operating system is okay.</div>
<div class="diff add">+    To check whether a given locale is installed and functional you</div>
<div class="diff add">+    can use <application>Perl</>, for example.  Perl has also support</div>
<div class="diff add">+    for locales and if a locale is broken <command>perl -v</> will</div>
<div class="diff add">+    complain something like this:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+<prompt>$</> <userinput>export LC_CTYPE='not_exist'</></div>
<div class="diff add">+<prompt>$</> <userinput>perl -v</></div>
<div class="diff add">+<computeroutput></div>
<div class="diff add">+perl: warning: Setting locale failed.</div>
<div class="diff add">+perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:</div>
<div class="diff add">+LC_ALL = (unset),</div>
<div class="diff add">+LC_CTYPE = "not_exist",</div>
<div class="diff add">+LANG = (unset)</div>
<div class="diff add">+are supported and installed on your system.</div>
<div class="diff add">+perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").</div>
<div class="diff add">+</computeroutput></div>
<div class="diff add">+</screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Check that your locale files are in the right location.  Possible</div>
<div class="diff add">+    locations include: <filename>/usr/lib/locale</filename> (Linux,</div>
<div class="diff add">+    Solaris), <filename>/usr/share/locale</filename> (Linux),</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <filename>/usr/lib/nls/loc</filename> (DUX 4.0).  Check the locale</div>
<div class="diff add">+    man page of your system if you are not sure.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    The directory <filename>src/test/locale</> contains a test suite</div>
<div class="diff add">+    for <productname>PostgreSQL</>'s locale support.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </sect1></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff ctx">   <sect1 id="multibyte"></div>
<div class="diff rem">-   <title>Multi<span class="marked">-</span>byte Support
+   Multibyte Support
 
    
     Author
@@ -53,7 +244,7 @@
    
 
    
-    Multi-byte (MB) support is intended to allow
+    Multibyte (MB) support is intended to allow
     Postgres to handle
     multiple-byte character sets such as EUC (Extended Unix Code), Unicode and
     Mule internal code. With MB enabled you can use multi-byte
@@ -680,7 +871,78 @@ SET CLIENT_ENCODING = 'WIN1250';
     
    
   
- 
+
+
+ 
+  Single-byte character set recoding</></div>
<div class="diff add">+<!-- formerly in README.charsets, by Josef Balatka, <balatka@email.cz> --></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   You can set up this feature with the <option>--enable-recode</> option</div>
<div class="diff add">+   to <filename>configure</>. This option was formerly described as</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <quote>Cyrillic recode support</> which doesn't express all its</div>
<div class="diff add">+   power. It can be used for <emphasis>any</> single-byte character</div>
<div class="diff add">+   set recoding.</div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   This method uses a file <filename>charset.conf</> file located in</div>
<div class="diff add">+   the database directory (<envar>PGDATA</>).  It's a typical</div>
<div class="diff add">+   configuration text file where spaces and newlines separate items</div>
<div class="diff add">+   and records and # specifies comments.  Three keywords with the</div>
<div class="diff add">+   following syntax are recognized here:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<synopsis></div>
<div class="diff add">+BaseCharset      <replaceable>server_charset</></div>
<div class="diff add">+RecodeTable      <replaceable>from_charset</> <replaceable>to_charset</> <replaceable>file_name</></div>
<div class="diff add">+HostCharset      <replaceable>host_spec</>    <replaceable>host_charset</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</synopsis></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <token>BaseCharset</> defines the encoding of the database server.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   All character set names are only used for mapping inside of</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <filename>charset.conf</> so you can freely use typing-friendly</div>
<div class="diff add">+   names.</div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <token>RecodeTable</> records specify translation tables between</div>
<div class="diff add">+   server and client.  The file name is relative to the</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <envar>PGDATA</> directory.  The table file format is very</div>
<div class="diff add">+   simple. There are no keywords and characters are represented by a</div>
<div class="diff add">+   pair of decimal or hexadecimal (0x prefixed) values on single</div>
<div class="diff add">+   lines:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<synopsis></div>
<div class="diff add">+<replaceable>char_value</>   <replaceable>translated_char_value</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</synopsis></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <token>HostCharset</> records define the client character set by IP</div>
<div class="diff add">+   address. You can use a single IP address, an IP mask range starting</div>
<div class="diff add">+   from the given address or an IP interval (e.g., 127.0.0.1,</div>
<div class="diff add">+   192.168.1.100/24, 192.168.1.20-192.168.1.40).</div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   The <filename>charset.conf</> file is always processed up to the</div>
<div class="diff add">+   end, so you can easily specify exceptions from the previous</div>
<div class="diff add">+   rules. In the src/data you will find charset.conf example and a few</div>
<div class="diff add">+   recoding tables.</div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   As this solution is based on the client's IP address and character</div>
<div class="diff add">+   set mapping there are obviously some restrictions as well. You</div>
<div class="diff add">+   cannot use different encodings on the same host at the same</div>
<div class="diff add">+   time. It is also inconvenient when you boot your client hosts into</div>
<div class="diff add">+   more operating systems.  Nevertheless, when these restrictions are</div>
<div class="diff add">+   not limiting and you do not need multi-byte characters than it is a</div>
<div class="diff add">+   simple and effective solution.</div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </sect1></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+</chapter></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> Local variables:</div>
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<div class="diff add">+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.2<span class="marked">2 2000/09/30 16:58:20</span> petere Exp $ --></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">  <title><![%flattext-install-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</> ]]>Installation Instructions
@@ -447,8 +447,9 @@ su - postgres
        --enable-recode
        
         
-         Enables character set recode support. See
-         doc/README.Charsets for details on this feature.
+         Enables single-byte character set recode support. See
+         Administrator's Guide]]>
+         ]]> about this feature.
         
        
       
@@ -459,7 +460,10 @@ su - postgres
         
          Allows the use of multibyte character encodings. This is
          primarily for languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
-         Read doc/README.mb for details.
+         Read 
+         Administrator's Guide]]>
+         ]]>
+         for details.
         
        
       

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml
index 19f93c5aae3d295caea5e3815c57b32fc7d15833..f3fa3912d4f146d08a571855ed51ba727b3851fe 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -173,9 +173,9 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml,v 1.41 2000/09/12 05:37:09 th
 -->
   &installation;
   &installw;
-  &charset;
   &runtime;
   &client-auth;
+  &charset;
   &manage-ag;
   &user-manag;
   &backup;


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

index 5ae49bfdd5bd7124ba3a22776c76afc4ecf52f35..b27b13294af510eb85df50b01bb8eb616ddc8977 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -1553,126 +1553,6 @@ set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=32
  
 
 
- 
-  Locale Support
-  
-  
-   Acknowledgement
-   
-    Written by Oleg Bartunov. See 
-    url="http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/">Oleg's web
-    page for additional information on locale and Russian
-    language support.
-   
-  
-
-  
-   While doing a project for a company in Moscow, Russia, I
-   encountered the problem that Postgres had no
-   support of national alphabets. After looking for possible
-   workarounds I decided to develop support of locale myself. I'm not
-   a C programmer but already had some experience with locale
-   programming when I work with Perl (debugging) and
-   Glimpse. After several days of digging through the
-   Postgres source tree I made very minor corections
-   to src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c and
-   src/backend/main/main.c and got what I needed! I did
-   support only for LC_CTYPE and
-   LC_COLLATE, but later LC_MONETARY was
-   added by others. I got many messages from people about this patch
-   so I decided to send it to developers and (to my surprise) it was
-   incorporated into the Postgres distribution.
-  
-
-  
-   People often complain that locale doesn't work for them. There are
-   several common mistakes:
-   
-   
-    
-     
-      Didn't properly configure Postgres before
-      compilation. You must run configure with the
-      --enable-locale option to enable locale support.
-     
-    
-
-    
-     
-      Didn't setup environment correctly when starting postmaster. You
-      must define environment variables LC_CTYPE and
-      LC_COLLATE before running postmaster because
-      backend gets information about locale from environment. I use
-      following shell script:
-
-#!/bin/sh
-
-export LC_CTYPE=koi8-r
-export LC_COLLATE=koi8-r
-postmaster -B 1024 -S -D/usr/local/pgsql/data/ -o '-Fe'
-
-     
-    
-
-    
-     
-      Broken locale support in the operating system (for example,
-      locale support in libc under Linux several times has changed and
-      this caused a lot of problems). Perl has also support of locale
-      and if locale is broken perl -v will complain
-      something like:
-
-$ export LC_CTYPE='not_exist'
-$ perl -v
-
-perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
-perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
-LC_ALL = (unset),
-LC_CTYPE = "not_exist",
-LANG = (unset)
-are supported and installed on your system.
-perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
-
-
-     
-    
-
-    
-     
-      Wrong location of locale files. Possible locations include:
-      /usr/lib/locale (Linux, Solaris),
-      /usr/share/locale (Linux),
-      /usr/lib/nls/loc (DUX 4.0).
-      
-      Check man locale to find the correct
-      location. Under Linux I made a symbolic link between
-      /usr/lib/locale and
-      /usr/share/locale to be sure that the next
-      libc will not break my locale.
-     
-    
-   
-  
-
-  
-   What are the Benefits? 
-   
-    You can use ~* and order by operators for strings contain
-    characters from national alphabets. Non-english users definitely
-    need that.
-   
-  
-
-  
-   What are the Drawbacks?
-   
-    There is one evident drawback of using locale - its speed! So, use
-    locale only if you really need it.
-   
-  
- 
-
-
  
   Shutting down the server
 

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 5ae49bfdd5bd7124ba3a22776c76afc4ecf52f35..b27b13294af510eb85df50b01bb8eb616ddc8977 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -1553,126 +1553,6 @@ set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=32
  
 
 
- 
-  Locale Support
-  
-  
-   Acknowledgement
-   
-    Written by Oleg Bartunov. See 
-    url="http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/">Oleg's web
-    page for additional information on locale and Russian
-    language support.
-   
-  
-
-  
-   While doing a project for a company in Moscow, Russia, I
-   encountered the problem that Postgres had no
-   support of national alphabets. After looking for possible
-   workarounds I decided to develop support of locale myself. I'm not
-   a C programmer but already had some experience with locale
-   programming when I work with Perl (debugging) and
-   Glimpse. After several days of digging through the
-   Postgres source tree I made very minor corections
-   to src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c and
-   src/backend/main/main.c and got what I needed! I did
-   support only for LC_CTYPE and
-   LC_COLLATE, but later LC_MONETARY was
-   added by others. I got many messages from people about this patch
-   so I decided to send it to developers and (to my surprise) it was
-   incorporated into the Postgres distribution.
-  
-
-  
-   People often complain that locale doesn't work for them. There are
-   several common mistakes:
-   
-   
-    
-     
-      Didn't properly configure Postgres before
-      compilation. You must run configure with the
-      --enable-locale option to enable locale support.
-     
-    
-
-    
-     
-      Didn't setup environment correctly when starting postmaster. You
-      must define environment variables LC_CTYPE and
-      LC_COLLATE before running postmaster because
-      backend gets information about locale from environment. I use
-      following shell script:
-
-#!/bin/sh
-
-export LC_CTYPE=koi8-r
-export LC_COLLATE=koi8-r
-postmaster -B 1024 -S -D/usr/local/pgsql/data/ -o '-Fe'
-
-     
-    
-
-    
-     
-      Broken locale support in the operating system (for example,
-      locale support in libc under Linux several times has changed and
-      this caused a lot of problems). Perl has also support of locale
-      and if locale is broken perl -v will complain
-      something like:
-
-$ export LC_CTYPE='not_exist'
-$ perl -v
-
-perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
-perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
-LC_ALL = (unset),
-LC_CTYPE = "not_exist",
-LANG = (unset)
-are supported and installed on your system.
-perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
-
-
-     
-    
-
-    
-     
-      Wrong location of locale files. Possible locations include:
-      /usr/lib/locale (Linux, Solaris),
-      /usr/share/locale (Linux),
-      /usr/lib/nls/loc (DUX 4.0).
-      
-      Check man locale to find the correct
-      location. Under Linux I made a symbolic link between
-      /usr/lib/locale and
-      /usr/share/locale to be sure that the next
-      libc will not break my locale.
-     
-    
-   
-  
-
-  
-   What are the Benefits? 
-   
-    You can use ~* and order by operators for strings contain
-    characters from national alphabets. Non-english users definitely
-    need that.
-   
-  
-
-  
-   What are the Drawbacks?
-   
-    There is one evident drawback of using locale - its speed! So, use
-    locale only if you really need it.
-   
-  
- 
-
-
  
   Shutting down the server