Re: [BUGS] select fails on indexed varchars.

[Alex Krohn]

Hi Tom,

> > [postgres@penguin pgsql]$ locale
> > LANG=en_US
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> > LC_TIME="en_US"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> > LC_ALL=en_US
> > [postgres@penguin pgsql]$
> 
> > Postmaster is running as user pgsql. Any ideas on workarounds? 
> 
> Use locale "C" unless you have a really good reason why you need
> en_US sorting order.
> 
> Beware of changing the postmaster's locale on the fly, however,
> since that will leave you with corrupted (out-of-order) indexes.
> Safest to dump/initdb in new locale/reload.

How would I go about changing that? Setting LANG and LC_ALL in the pgsql
users home directory .bashrc? Or do I need to edit the startup file?

Cheers,

Alex