> Say, is it possible that your VACUUM problem is a locale-related bug?
>
> If init runs with a different locale setting than hand-started
> processes, then that would affect index ordering ... which could
> perhaps cause fatal problems while vacuuming indexes. I could
> believe that VACUUM is not able to cope with indexes that appear
> to be out of order according to the sort operators it's using.
>
> This line of thought leads to the idea that indexes had better be
> marked explicitly with the locale that they're for. Or else we
> need to change Postgres so that the locale setting is hard-wired
> at compile time and not dependent on environment variables.
That is an excellent point. I never considered that. In fact, initdb
would also need identical locale, wouldn't it.
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