On July 11, 2024 3:31:37 PM EDT, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: >On 7/11/24 11:14, H wrote: >> On July 11, 2024 11:06:02 AM GMT-04:00, Adrian Klaver ><adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: >>> On 7/11/24 07:57, H wrote: >>>> I used to successfully run psql server 13 in a CentOS 7 docker >>> container with CentOS 7 as the host operating system. I have now >>> upgraded that system to Rocky Linux 9 as the host operating system >and >>> modifying my container to also use Rocky Linux 9 and psql server 16. >>>> >>>> I can successfully get the container up and running and can connect >>> to it. However, I have not managed to modify the initdb statement to >>> use en_US.UTF-8 for all databases. >>>> >>>> In the old container I used: >>>> >>>> su - postgres -c "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/initdb -D >/var/lib/pgsql/13/data/ >>> -E 'UTF-8' --lc-collate='en_US.UTF-8' --lc-ctype='en_US.UTF-8'" >>>> >>>> but this does not work with psql 16. I tried: >>>> >>>> su - postgres -c "/usr/pgsql-16/bin/initdb -D >/var/lib/pgsql/16/data/ >>> -E 'UTF-8' --lc-lang='en_US'" > >1) Per: > >https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/app-initdb.html > >lc_lang does not exist and I get: > >/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/initdb: unrecognized option >'--lc-lang=en_US' > >2) On Ubuntu 22.04 doing: > > /usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/initdb -D postgres/16/data/ -E 'UTF-8' >--lc-collate='en_US.utf8' --lc-ctype='en_US.utf8' > >I get: > >postgres=# \l >List of databases >-[ RECORD 1 ]-----+-------------------- >Name | postgres >Owner | aklaver >Encoding | UTF8 >Locale Provider | libc >Collate | en_US.utf8 >Ctype | en_US.utf8 >ICU Locale | >ICU Rules | >Access privileges | >-[ RECORD 2 ]-----+-------------------- >Name | template0 >Owner | aklaver >Encoding | UTF8 >Locale Provider | libc >Collate | en_US.utf8 >Ctype | en_US.utf8 >ICU Locale | >ICU Rules | >Access privileges | =c/aklaver + > | aklaver=CTc/aklaver >-[ RECORD 3 ]-----+-------------------- >Name | template1 >Owner | aklaver >Encoding | UTF8 >Locale Provider | libc >Collate | en_US.utf8 >Ctype | en_US.utf8 >ICU Locale | >ICU Rules | >Access privileges | =c/aklaver + > | aklaver=CTc/aklaver > >3) What does locale -a return on your machine? > > >>>> >>>> and variations thereof with no success. >>> >>> Without a definition of what '... no success' means there is no real >>> way >>> to answer this. >>> >>>> >>>> Any suggestions on what I have missed? >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> >> >> Good question! ”No success” meant that I have not been able to figure >out how to have new databases default to en_US.UTF-8, instead they >default to C.UTF-8. >> >> What is the proper syntax for pgsql 16 for this? I could not get the >example given in the docs to work...
You are right, the locale is now called en_US.utf8 and with that correction I get the expected result.
