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Hi,

We are on postgres boat as well - and yes, UTF-8 is our default setting for all OpenStack databases.

Cheers,
NM 

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On March 10, 2014 at 11:25:39 PM, gustavo panizzo (gfa at zumbi.com.ar) wrote:

adding -operators, removing -dev  

On 03/10/2014 02:24 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:  
>  
> Hi,  
>  
> I'm using havana and recent we ran into an issue with heat related to  
> character sets.  
>  
> In heat/db/sqlalchemy/api.py in user_creds_get() we call  
> _decrypt() on an encrypted password stored in the database and then  
> try to convert the result to unicode. Today we hit a case where this  
> errored out with the following message:  
>  
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf2 in position 0:  
> invalid continuation byte  
>  
> We're using postgres and currently all the databases are using  
> SQL_ASCII as the charset.  
>  
> I see that in icehouse heat will complain if you're using mysql and  
> not using UTF-8. There doesn't seem to be any checks for other  
> databases though.  
>  
> It looks like devstack creates most databases as UTF-8 but uses latin1  
> for nova/nova_bm/nova_cell. I assume this is because nova expects to  
> migrate the db to UTF-8 later. Given that those migrations specify a  
> character set only for mysql, when using postgres should we explicitly  
> default to UTF-8 for everything?  
after running openstack with postgres for a year i can tell you. use  
UTF-8 on your db.  
our db were encoded SQL_ASCII on install time and sooner or later we had  
issues, recreating db on UTF-8 fixed them  


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