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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:06:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: Running psql in a docker container
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On 7/11/24 07:57, H wrote:
> I used to successfully run psql server 13 in a CentOS 7 docker container with CentOS 7 as the host operating system. I have now upgraded that system to Rocky Linux 9 as the host operating system and modifying my container to also use Rocky Linux 9 and psql server 16.
> 
> I can successfully get the container up and running and can connect to it. However, I have not managed to modify the initdb statement to use en_US.UTF-8 for all databases.
> 
> In the old container I used:
> 
> su - postgres -c "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/13/data/ -E 'UTF-8' --lc-collate='en_US.UTF-8' --lc-ctype='en_US.UTF-8'"
> 
> but this does not work with psql 16. I tried:
> 
> su - postgres -c "/usr/pgsql-16/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/16/data/ -E 'UTF-8' --lc-lang='en_US'"
> 
> and variations thereof with no success.

Without a definition of what '... no success' means there is no real way 
to answer this.

> 
> Any suggestions on what I have missed?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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