Rob Northcott <Rob.Northcott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: rob stone [mailto:floriparob@xxxxxxxxx] >> On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 11:30 +0000, Rob Northcott wrote: >>> How can I add a collation language to a Postgres server? >>> Specifically, I want to create a new database with collation of >>> English_United Kingdom.1252 but the only options are C, Posix and >>> United States. >>> This is Postgres 9.6 on Windows server 2012. The server is Swedish, >>> and my user login is set to UK. >> initdb --locale=en_GB.UTF-8 . . . plus other init options as required. > Thanks for the reply. When I try that I get the message "invalid locale name" en_GB.UTF-8 is a Unix-style locale name, it won't help you on Windows. You need something like "English_United Kingdom.1252" on Windows. I'm not sure what you mean by "the only options are" ... are you using some GUI that only offers those options? If so, this is a shortcoming in that GUI. Postgres itself should take whatever ctype/collation settings the underlying system accepts. You could try manually invoking initdb as above, but with a Windows-style locale name. Or if you want to make a new database within an existing installation, use CREATE DATABASE directly, setting the LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE options (and selecting a matching ENCODING). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
