Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server
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Msg-id 20030830005017.GA25483@svana.org
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server  (Sander Smeenk <ssm+pgsql@freshdot.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:17:43PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Quoting Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us):
>
> > > The nl_NL@euro.UTF-8 locale I used 'back then' is incorrect. It's not a
> > > real locale, and the newer versions of libc6 and locales that I have
> > > installed now don't support the generation of this faulty locale.
> > If you believe that your new locale is functionally equivalent to the
> > old (which you'd better, if you're going to risk starting the postmaster
> > under it), why don't you just make a temporary symlink in
> > /usr/lib/locale/ ?
>
> I think this locale setup is a bit different with Debian installations.
> /usr/lib/locale/ holds no files except for 'locale-archive' which,
> according to file, is a PDP11 executable :P
>
> I tried specifying 'nl_NL@euro.UTF-8 nl_NL.UTF-8' in locale.alias, but
> to no extent. It still won't start.

The locales in Debian are stored in either:
/usr/lib/locale/en_US
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US

pg_dump/restore recommended after.

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