[GENERAL] automatic rollback?

2007-08-16 Thread John Gunther
seems to be no code in the application that could be doing this. I know this is a long shot but is there any way the changes could be getting rolled back automatically? I'm not using any explicit COMMIT, ROLLBACK, or SAVEPOINT statements. John Gunther ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Locale, encoding, sort order confusion

2006-08-21 Thread John Gunther
Alvaro Herrera wrote: For example, with all LC_* parameters set to "en_US.UTF8", I get the following incorrect "order:by": Béarn Bécancour Beaupré Did you initdb with locale en_US.UTF8, and also createdb with encoding UTF8? While you can certainly choose mismatching values

[GENERAL] Confused about locales

2006-08-21 Thread John Gunther
St-Émile stendahl st ènders St. Epson Can someone tell me what combination of PostgreSQL and Linux settings I need for this? It seems like a very basic question, but I'm just dense, I guess. I've tried a half dozen time-consuming configs without success. Than

Re: [GENERAL] Locale, encoding, sort order confusion

2006-08-20 Thread John Gunther
Pretty much any locale (say, en_US for you) with a matching character set should work. Unless you go out of your way, this should be the default setting. I've tried a half dozen time-consuming configs without success. Like what? For example, with all LC_* parameters set to "en_US.UTF8",

[GENERAL] Locale, encoding, sort order confusion

2006-08-19 Thread John Gunther
s without success. Thank you. John Gunther ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] Locale, encoding, sort order confusion

2006-08-19 Thread John Gunther
data is in sorted order: St-Émile stendahl st ènders St. Epson Can someone tell me what combination of PostgreSQL and Linux settings I need for this? It seems like a very basic question, but I'm just dense, I guess. I've tried a half dozen time-consuming configs without success.

[GENERAL] Forcing backslash to be treated as ordinary string character

2006-06-16 Thread John Gunther
Doc section 4.1.2.1 says that in future, backslashes will be treated as ordinary string characters. It says to use the "E" string prefix to ensure that backslashes are permanently treated as escape characters. Question: Aside from "dollar quoting" (Section 4.1.2.2), is there any way NOW to force

[GENERAL] Forcing backslash to be treated as ordinary string character

2006-06-15 Thread John Gunther
Doc section 4.1.2.1 says that in future, backslashes will be treated as ordinary string characters. It says to use the "E" string prefix to ensure that backslashes are permanently treated as escape characters. Question: Aside from "dollar quoting" (Section 4.1.2.2), is there any way NOW to for

[GENERAL] locale-specific sort algorithms undocumented?

2004-07-25 Thread John Gunther
its predilection to ignoring non-alphanumerics. Thanks for sharing any insights. John Gunther Bucks vs Bytes Inc Innovative, advanced web sites for all occasions. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregis