On July 11, 2024 11:06:02 AM GMT-04:00, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 7/11/24 07:57, H wrote: >> I used to successfully run psql server 13 in a CentOS 7 docker >container with CentOS 7 as the host operating system. I have now >upgraded that system to Rocky Linux 9 as the host operating system and >modifying my container to also use Rocky Linux 9 and psql server 16. >> >> I can successfully get the container up and running and can connect >to it. However, I have not managed to modify the initdb statement to >use en_US.UTF-8 for all databases. >> >> In the old container I used: >> >> su - postgres -c "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/13/data/ >-E 'UTF-8' --lc-collate='en_US.UTF-8' --lc-ctype='en_US.UTF-8'" >> >> but this does not work with psql 16. I tried: >> >> su - postgres -c "/usr/pgsql-16/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/16/data/ >-E 'UTF-8' --lc-lang='en_US'" >> >> and variations thereof with no success. > >Without a definition of what '... no success' means there is no real >way >to answer this. > >> >> Any suggestions on what I have missed? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Good question! ”No success” meant that I have not been able to figure out how to have new databases default to en_US.UTF-8, instead they default to C.UTF-8. What is the proper syntax for pgsql 16 for this? I could not get the example given in the docs to work...
