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Debraj Manna <subharaj.manna@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks Tom for replying.
> support@vrni-platform-release:~$ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8

OK, so that's what you have in your interactive shell environment ...

> My locale settings are like above. But I am seeing is C picked by postgres.
> Any idea why it is picking C instead of en_US.UTF-8.

Presumably, initdb is not seeing that same environment.  Might be a side
effect of running it under sudo or some wrapper script.

			regards, tom lane