Thread: locale ordering

locale ordering

From
"Jacob Vennervald Madsen"
Date:
Hi List

How do I change the locale in the database?
I've tried to set the LANG environment variable before starting the
database but it still sorts it the english way.

Any ideas?

Jacob

Re: locale ordering

From
"Oliver Elphick"
Date:
"Jacob Vennervald Madsen" wrote:
  >How do I change the locale in the database?
  >I've tried to set the LANG environment variable before starting the
  >database but it still sorts it the english way.

You can't change it; it's set for the life of all databases.

Use pg_dumpall to save all data.
Destroy all databases and $PGDATA itself.
Set and export the desired locale in LANG.
Use initdb to recreate $PGDATA; then restore the dumped databases.

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