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* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) @ 2025-11-23 22:02 Tom Lane <[email protected]> 2025-11-23 22:42 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Brent Wood <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Tom Lane @ 2025-11-23 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected] =?UTF-8?B?RXJ0YW4gS8O8w6fDvGtvZ2x1?= <[email protected]> writes: > 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" Edit the dump so that the databases are created with Linux-compatible locale names. You should find lines like CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UTF-8' LOCALE_PROVIDER = libc LOCALE = 'tr-TR'; (details will vary depending on PG version) and changing the locale strings ought to do the trick. If the dump file is too big for your editor, consider splitting it into schema-only and data-only dumps. regards, tom lane ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) 2025-11-23 22:02 Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Tom Lane <[email protected]> @ 2025-11-23 22:42 ` Brent Wood <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:06 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Brent Wood @ 2025-11-23 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> If the dump file is too big to edit conventionally, piping it through a stream editor like sed to make the required changes works nicely. It can be done on the fly in the restore process if required. Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 ________________________________ From: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 24 November 2025 11:02 To: Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) =?UTF-8?B?RXJ0YW4gS8O8w6fDvGtvZ2x1?= <[email protected]> writes: > 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" Edit the dump so that the databases are created with Linux-compatible locale names. You should find lines like CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UTF-8' LOCALE_PROVIDER = libc LOCALE = 'tr-TR'; (details will vary depending on PG version) and changing the locale strings ought to do the trick. If the dump file is too big for your editor, consider splitting it into schema-only and data-only dumps. regards, tom lane Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatial Data Management +64-4-386-0529 301 Evans Bay Parade, Greta Point, Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand Earth Sciences New Zealand [Earth Sciences New Zealand]<https://earthsciences.nz; The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited joined to become the New Zealand Institute for Earth Science Limited. We are known as Earth Sciences New Zealand. For more information on the Earth Sciences transition click here<https://niwa.co.nz/about-niwa/science-sector-reforms;. Notice: This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to copyright, and may not be used, published or redistributed without the prior written consent of Earth Sciences New Zealand. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender and delete the email and any attachments. Any opinion or views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of Earth Sciences New Zealand. For information about how we process data and monitor communications please see our privacy policy<https://niwa.co.nz/about-niwa/privacy-policy;. ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) 2025-11-23 22:02 Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Tom Lane <[email protected]> 2025-11-23 22:42 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Brent Wood <[email protected]> @ 2025-11-25 21:06 ` Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:20 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ertan Küçükoglu @ 2025-11-25 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Brent Wood <[email protected]>; +Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Brent Wood <[email protected]>, 24 Kas 2025 Pzt, 01:42 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > If the dump file is too big to edit conventionally, piping it through a > stream editor like sed to make the required changes works nicely. > It can be done on the fly in the restore process if required. > > Brent Wood > > Principal Technician, Fisheries > NIWA > DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tom Lane <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, 24 November 2025 11:02 > *To:* Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) > > =?UTF-8?B?RXJ0YW4gS8O8w6fDvGtvZ2x1?= <[email protected]> writes: > > 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" > > Edit the dump so that the databases are created with Linux-compatible > locale names. You should find lines like > > CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UTF-8' > LOCALE_PROVIDER = libc LOCALE = 'tr-TR'; > > (details will vary depending on PG version) and changing the locale > strings ought to do the trick. > > If the dump file is too big for your editor, consider splitting it > into schema-only and data-only dumps. > > regards, tom lane > Hello, I manually created a database on the Linux system. Took a database backup and restored it on the Linux system. This way dump does not include any charset. Thanks & Regards, Ertan ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) 2025-11-23 22:02 Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Tom Lane <[email protected]> 2025-11-23 22:42 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Brent Wood <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:06 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> @ 2025-11-25 21:20 ` Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 22:03 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Adrian Klaver @ 2025-11-25 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]>; Brent Wood <[email protected]>; +Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> On 11/25/25 13:06, Ertan Küçükoglu wrote: > > Hello, > I am not understanding the below. > I manually created a database on the Linux system. > Took a database backup and restored it on the Linux system. That is what started this thread, an issue with a backup from a Windows machine. So where did you get a backup that you could restore? > This way dump does not include any charset. Pretty sure it does, it just one that your Linux machine understands. > > Thanks & Regards, > Ertan -- Adrian Klaver [email protected] ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) 2025-11-23 22:02 Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Tom Lane <[email protected]> 2025-11-23 22:42 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Brent Wood <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:06 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:20 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> @ 2025-11-25 22:03 ` Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 22:13 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ertan Küçükoglu @ 2025-11-25 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>; +Cc: Brent Wood <[email protected]>; Tom Lane <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>, 26 Kas 2025 Çar, 00:20 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > On 11/25/25 13:06, Ertan Küçükoglu wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am not understanding the below. > > > I manually created a database on the Linux system. > > Took a database backup and restored it on the Linux system. > > That is what started this thread, an issue with a backup from a Windows > machine. > > So where did you get a backup that you could restore? > > Initially it was a pgdump_all backup. Which includes database creation scripts. I used only pg_dump backup. Where I restore in an already created database. I called pg_dumpall backup as "cluster backup" . It may be my wrong choice of naming. ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) 2025-11-23 22:02 Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Tom Lane <[email protected]> 2025-11-23 22:42 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Brent Wood <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:06 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 21:20 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> 2025-11-25 22:03 ` Re: Restore Windows dump to Linux (locale issue) Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]> @ 2025-11-25 22:13 ` Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Adrian Klaver @ 2025-11-25 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ertan Küçükoglu <[email protected]>; +Cc: Brent Wood <[email protected]>; Tom Lane <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> On 11/25/25 14:03, Ertan Küçükoglu wrote: > Adrian Klaver <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>, 26 Kas 2025 Çar, 00:20 tarihinde > şunu yazdı: > > On 11/25/25 13:06, Ertan Küçükoglu wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am not understanding the below. > > > I manually created a database on the Linux system. > > Took a database backup and restored it on the Linux system. > > That is what started this thread, an issue with a backup from a Windows > machine. > > So where did you get a backup that you could restore? > > > Initially it was a pgdump_all backup. Which includes database creation > scripts. > I used only pg_dump backup. Where I restore in an already created database. Alright I understand now. > > I called pg_dumpall backup as "cluster backup" . It may be my wrong > choice of naming. It is a dump of the all the databases in the cluster as well as the cluster global objects, so the naming is correct. I just did not make the connection. -- Adrian Klaver [email protected] ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 6+ messages in thread
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