-----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 14 September 2017 14:53 To: Rob Northcott <Rob.Northcott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to add new Collation language 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 Thanks Tom, using initdb to create a new data directory (cluster?) worked, using "English_United..." rather than en_GB as you suggested. I've never had to do that before - always just used the default Postgres installation and selected "English United Kingdom" during the install. That didn't seem to work on this server - it insisted on being United States. Anyway, learning how to use the command line is no bad thing. Thanks for your help. Rob -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
