Re: pg_upgrade from 9.5.10 to 12 fails with encoding issue - Mailing list pgsql-admin

> On Jan 19, 2020, at 10:00 PM, Shrikant Bhende <shrikantpostgresql@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello community,
>
> I am trying to upgrade a cluster of version 9.5.19 to version 12.1 but seems like upgrade is getting failed because
ofdatabase encoding issue, I am getting below error while running pg_upgrade command with -c  
>
> "lc_collate values for database "postgres" do not match:  old "en_US.UTF-8", new "C.UTF-8" Failure, exiting",
>
> I have tried to create new cluster f version 12 using initdb --encoding parameter but it create encoding as C.UTF-8
onlyand old cluster is with encoding en_us_UTF-8. 
> Kindly assist to resolve this issue.
>
> Thanks and regards

I'm going to guess that you need --locale as well.