Re: BUG #4038: Problem with locale changing by initdb

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Alexey <_Kpot_(at)sibmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 4038
> Logged by: Alexey
> Email address: _Kpot_(at)sibmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2.5
> Operating system: Windows 2003
> Description: Problem with locale changing by initdb
> Details:
>
> I want to change locale of my database to 'Russian_Russia.1251'. I
> executed
> command, according to documentation:
>
> initdb -D E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\data
> --locale=Russian_Russia.1251
>
> Then I saw message:
>
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "Alexey".
> This user must also own the server process.
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale Russian_Russia.1251.

<error_output>

> initdb: directory "Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data" exists but is not empty
> If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
> the directory "Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data" or run initdb
> with an argument other than "Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data".

</error_output>

The above error messages show that you tried to create a database in a
directory that was not empty.

>
>
> After I saw values of parameters lc_collate and lc_ctype, and they were
> 'C',
> but not 'Russian_Russia.1251'
>
> Did I somethin wrong?
>

You seem to assume that the above command succeeded. Your INITDB did not
succeed; the locales you are seeing are from the preexisting database.
Either create a new directory for the new database, or empty the older
directory.

One more (important) thing. You should use quotes for the -D parameter,
since your directory path has space, like so:

initdb -D "E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\data"
--locale=Russian_Russia.1251

HTH

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