Am 17.08.2014 17:17, schrieb Tom Lane: > Me too, but I repeat the point that what you have to twiddle is the > postmaster's environment; in particular you have to set LC_CTYPE > (or maybe better LC_ALL), which cannot be set from the config file. With "set LC_CTYPE" do you mean to create an simple environment variable? > >SET PGDATA=C:\Daten\pgdata2\ > >SET LC_ALL=German_Germany.UTF-8 > >initdb.exe > The database cluster will be initialized with locale "German_Germany.1252". > The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "WIN1252". > The default text search configuration will be set to "german". initdb uses PGDATA, but ignores LC_ALL, otherwise it would complain > initdb: invalid locale name "German_Germany.UTF-8" like seen with parameter --locale==German_Germany.UTF-8 I also tried to set environment variable LC_ALL global via control panel with different values. Restarted postgreSQL service; it doesn't care. Thanks, Redoute -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general