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From: H <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Running psql in a docker container
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:14:55 -0400
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On July 11, 2024 11:06:02 AM GMT-04:00, Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.
>> 
>> 

Good question! ”No success” meant that I have not been able to figure out how to have new databases default to en_US.UTF-8, instead they default to C.UTF-8.

What is the proper syntax for pgsql 16 for this? I could not get the example given in the docs to work...

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