Thread: ERROR: encoding LATIN9 does not match server's locale en_US

Hi all,

  Using PostgreSQL 8.3.0 I'm trying to do the following:

template1=# create database test with encoding='LATIN9';
ERROR:  encoding LATIN9 does not match server's locale en_US
DETAIL:  The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.

  I've been looking into the documentation to fix this and the only way
I have found is to use initdb to recreate the cluster, Is there any
other option?

Thanks
--
Arnau

Arnau <arnaulist@andromeiberica.com> writes:
> template1=# create database test with encoding='LATIN9';
> ERROR:  encoding LATIN9 does not match server's locale en_US
> DETAIL:  The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.

>   I've been looking into the documentation to fix this and the only way
> I have found is to use initdb to recreate the cluster, Is there any
> other option?

Nope, sorry.  If you need to change the database locale, you have to
re-initdb.

            regards, tom lane

In article <11865.1207073502@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Arnau <arnaulist@andromeiberica.com> writes:
>> template1=# create database test with encoding='LATIN9';
>> ERROR:  encoding LATIN9 does not match server's locale en_US
>> DETAIL:  The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.

>> I've been looking into the documentation to fix this and the only way
>> I have found is to use initdb to recreate the cluster, Is there any
>> other option?

> Nope, sorry.  If you need to change the database locale, you have to
> re-initdb.

Are there any characters in American English which are covered by
Latin-1, but not by Latin-9?  I consider Latin-1 mostly obsolete (no
French OE ligature, no Euro sign...).