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postgresql-common package

  1. Bug #969462
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 969462

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 969462] Re: fails to start after install if invalid locale is set

Robie Basak [2013-06-04 8:37 -0000]:
> > picking some random locale
>
> How about C or C.UTF-8? These should be suitable non-random fallbacks,
> right?

That's still not what you would expect on the server, which is usually
to use the server's configured system locale. C or C.UTF-8 basically
means "broken for everybody", as that will have the wrong
collation/sorting for all actual languages.

I think it is better to fail with an obvious error than to silently
create a cluster with an unwanted locale.