Re: initdb failing for chinese locale on windows machine

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Chetan Suttraway
<chetan.suttraway@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 14:25, Chetan Suttraway
>> <chetan.suttraway@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am trying to install postgres 8.4.3.1 on windows  machine which has
>> > chinese locale.
>> > The install wizard throws warning message and continues.
>> > However the logs show that initdb failed and so the service was not
>> > started.
>> >
>> > Have tested this on windows 95 but I think this problem can be
>> > reproduced on
>> > latest windows release.
>>
>> PostgreSQL is not supported on Windows 95 as a server, and has never
>> been. Only under cygwin, in which case you should be using a
>> completely different installer.
>>
>> --
>>  Magnus Hagander
>>  Me: http://www.hagander.net/
>>  Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
>
> This is reproducible on windows xp.

PostgreSQL doesn't support BIG5/cp950 as a server-side encoding.


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