On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:05:33AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Check whether this locale exists in /etc/locale.gen. If the name > > doesn't exactly match, postgresql will complain that it doesn't know > > it. > > I think the more portable way to discover what locale names the OS > knows is "locale -a" ... /etc/locale.gen doesn't exist on my machines.
Debian and Ubuntu stopped shipping complete locale databases a long time ago, it was way too large for a base system (>50MB IIRC). So there's now a file where you list the locales you want and it creates a database with just that. > FWIW, on the machines I have access to, "sv_SE.iso88591" seems to be the > standard spelling for this locale name; for instance on Fedora Core 5 locale... standard spelling... Heh, this is one area where "standard" doesn't mean very much. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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