initdb -E en_CA.utf-8 -D /export/home/sjothirajah/postgres8.3/pgsql/data gives this error initdb: "en_CA.utf-8" is not a valid server encoding name
Thanks josh On Dec 3, 2007 1:01 PM, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Harrison wrote: > > Hi > > Im tying to initialize the cluster using initdb and encoding 'UTF8' > > initdb -E UTF8 -D /export/home/josh/postgres8.3/pgsql/data > > > > But I get this error > > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "josh". > > This user must also own the server process. > > > > The database cluster will be initialized with locales > > COLLATE: en_CA.ISO8859-1 > > CTYPE: en_CA.ISO8859-1 > > MESSAGES: C > > MONETARY: en_CA.ISO8859-1 > > NUMERIC: en_CA.ISO8859-1 > > TIME: C > > initdb: encoding mismatch > > The encoding you selected (UTF8) and the encoding that the > > selected locale uses (LATIN1) do not match. This would lead to > > misbehavior in various character string processing functions. > > Rerun initdb and either do not specify an encoding explicitly, > > or choose a matching combination. > > > > Why do I get this error? How can I solve this? > > Thanks > > josh > > > > ISO8859-1 is "latin 1". Try using en_CA.utf-8 instead. > > brian > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >
