Logged by: Nicolas David Email address: nicolas.david@verosoftware.com PostgreSQL version: 9.2.5 Operating system: Windows 10 Description:
Dear All,
we have a chinese customer that have migrated from Win7 to Win10. It seems that the locale 'Chinese (Simplified)_People’s Republic of China.936' has been renamed to 'Chinese (Simplified)_China.936'.
For this reason, the postgresql service could not start (invalid value for parameters lc_monetary / lc_numeric / lc_time in postgresql.conf).
I changed the value in the postgresql.conf file to use the new locale.
After that the service starts but I cannot get connected to my database. I get an error message that tell me that LC_COLLATE is 'Chinese (Simplified)_People’s Republic of China.936'. A HINT explains that I should re-install the database or add the locale.
How can I manage this situation ?
Because if I re-install, the customer data will be lost and I don't know how to add this locale.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards
The locale has to be set when the database is created. Normally you can use pg_dump to export all the data, create a new database with the correct locale settings, and then pg_restore in to the new database.
Did the customer upgrade their Win7 machine to Win10 or move to a new machine with Win10 - and do you or they still have access to the older Win7 environment?
