Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk> writes: > In the init-script contained in the RPMs downloadable from the PostgreSQL > site (I checked the one for Fedora), an explicit locale is set before > running initdb. - And the explicit locale is not "C". Only if you don't have a sysconfig file: # Just in case no locale was set, use en_US [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] && echo "LANG=en_US" > $PGDATA/../initdb.i18n I agree though that it seems like a bad choice to default to en_US rather than C. Lamar, any reason why it's like that? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend