Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue)

On 11/23/25 13:41, Ertan Küçükoglu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using PostgreSQL 18.1 on a Windows system.
> I need to move that database to a Linux system of the same version number.
>
> Windows system use locales name as tr-TR (this is UTF-8 locale)
> Linux system use locale name as tr_TR.UTF-8
>
> My cluster backup gives error at restore (I think because of that locale
> naming difference) as below
>
> psql:/db.dump:133: ERROR:  invalid LC_COLLATE locale name: "tr-TR"

I should have added to previous post what does, in psql, the below return:

\l <database_name>

>
> And a bunch of other errors below.
>
> What can I do to complete this migration?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ertan

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