From: Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@gmail.com> To: Dhaval Jaiswal <bablu_postgres@yahoo.com> Cc: Kent Tong <kent@cpttm.org.mo>; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:47:43 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to specify the locale that psql uses
Please updates yourself with the latest version as its 8.3.7 these days and you are still like years and years behind with version 7.2 documentation :)
If you want to change the locale of existing database. You can't.
The workaround for that you can create another cluster with initdb command with supported locale.
I dont think so the person asking the question ever asked for changing encoding for the database. Please make sure to read the question atleast, as it was about changing locale for psql.
In order to do that
For server messages: -------------------------------
set the configuration parameter "lc_messages" to a value you like to have for getting messages back from server.
It can done in both ways, for the session and permanently.
In order to do for a session use:
set lc_message = ....
and otherwise set it in your postgresql.conf file and reload.
For Client messages: -----------------------------
For client programs like psql, change the current locale where you are starting up psql. I am not sure about windows but in Linux you can do this by setting LANG environment variable.
