Re: LOCALE C.UTF-8 on EDB Windows v17 server

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 14:23 +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> The command I'm using (from a libpq trace) is:
>
> create database "dd_v168" encoding 'UTF8' locale 'C.UTF-8'
> locale_provider 'builtin' template template0
>
> On Windows, I'm getting
>
> 2025-06-04 14:07:41.227419 B 155 ErrorResponse S "ERROR" V "ERROR" C
> "42809" M "invalid LC_COLLATE locale name: "C.UTF-8"" H "If the locale
> name is specific to ICU, use ICU_LOCALE." F "dbcommands.c" L "1057" R
> "createdb" \x00

Pilot error. If you use "LOCALE_PROVIDER builtin", you have to specify
BUILTIN LOCALE too:

CREATE DATABASE b
TEMPLATE template0
LOCALE_PROVIDER builtin
BUILTIN_LOCALE 'C.UTF-8'
/* used for aspects other than collation and character type */
LOCALE 'C';

Yours,
Laurenz Albe