First retrieve possible supported encodings using the following query
SELECT DISTINCT pg_catalog.pg_encoding_to_char(conforencoding) FROM pg_catalog.pg_conversion;
Then create the databases using encodings from the previous list
CREATE DATABASE test_WIN1256 WITH ENCODING = 'WIN1256';
get the error
ERROR: encoding "WIN1256" does not match locale "en_US.UTF-8" DETAIL:
The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding "UTF8".
How to deal with the error?
you can set the LC_ALL in ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile files:
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
export LANG=en_US.utf-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.utf-8
and then source the .bashrc:
$ source ~/.bashrc
Verify set with locale command re-ran the install again.
You can also create the database with specific LC_CTYPE, like:
CREATE DATABASE test_WIN1256 WITH ENCODING 'WIN1256' \
LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8';
Related
I am getting the following whenever I try and run perl on Ubuntu 18.04:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
I've tried running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" but nothing seems to work. How can I setup my locales on 18.04?
I have the following to select a locale to use, based on what is available.
# Insure the "locale" is set for unicode handling
#
for LANG in en_AU.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 C.UTF-8 C; do
if locale -a 2>/dev/null | grep -q "$LANG"; then
export LANG
break
fi
done
export LC_COLLATE=C # make 'ls' sort as 'C' order not locale order
I had to do this a Minimal Debian Docker Containers, which has minimal locales defined. Probably similar to Ubuntu.
On those containers the above falls back to 'C.UTF-8' (only C.UTF-8, C, and POSIX is actually available).
I do not set a LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE
I use pg_restore on Windows 10 with a dump file made on Linux.
I search on the web but I don't find answer.
[NEW] :
I install Ubuntu on my computer to use pg_restore but when I send
pg_restore -d mydatabase /home/user/Documents/dumpfile.dump
the command line is blocked.
Someone has this issue ?
Your new ubuntu installation hasn't defined the en_US.UTF-8 locale yet. So, when you're trying to restore the dumpfile, the dumpfile attempts to do something like:
CREATE DATABASE <database> WITH TEMPLATE = ... LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.UTF-8'...
But, 'en_US.UTF-8' is not defined by your new ubuntu server. First, you can verify this:
# list all "known" locales. In my case, on new Ubuntu 20, I get:
$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
Edit existing /etc/locale.gen file, which contains the list of possible locales. Most locales will be commented out. These will not be defined, so, un-comment the line with 'en_US.UTF-8'.
Run (as root) locale-gen.
root# locale-gen
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Notice it's now a configured locale:
$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
en_US.utf8
(Yes, it is lower case utf8, not a problem)
Restart your postgres server (so it sees the new locale -- you do not need to restart the ubuntu server itself), and you restore show now work.
You will need to do some research on locales. The place to start is the documentation.
Postgres relies on the operating system for locale information. The names differ between Posix and Windows. Presumably, the simplest solution is to change the name somehow. There might be a way to get Windows to understand the Posix names.
I am trying to create utf-8 database on windows 10:
createdb.exe -h localhost -p 53131 -U user -E UTF8 -T template0 -l en_US.utf-8 test777
But response is:
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: invalid locale name: "en_US.utf-8"
Any clues?
You should use "English_United States" or "en-US", see the Microsoft documentation about locale names.
PostgreSQL allows the creation of a UTF8 database with any locale on Windows (see the documentation).
By the way, the initdb option for specifying the locale is --locale and not -l.
I am trying to execute an SQL query which is stored in the file. I am using following command to execute:
psql -d DB_NAME -a -f QUERY_NAME.sql
I have some non English text in the SQL file like - સુરત
When the query is executed the text in the database looks like - à ª¸à «Âà ª°à ª¤
How do I execute the query from command line so that it runs correctly?
Make sure the client_encoding matches the encoding of your file. Check your system locale. Then use a matching command line argument for psql. Quoting the manual here:
If at least one of standard input or standard output are a terminal,
then psql sets the client encoding to "auto", which will detect the
appropriate client encoding from the locale settings (LC_CTYPE
environment variable on Unix systems). If this doesn't work out as
expected, the client encoding can be overridden using the environment
variable PGCLIENTENCODING.
Example for a Linux shell:
env PGCLIENTENCODING='WIN1258' psql DB_NAME -a -f QUERY_NAME.sql
List of available encodings in the manual.
So I'm walking through the GeoDjango tutorial and I'm stuck on this error message:
postgres#lucid32:~$ createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US
DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.
I've googled and read some Ubuntu docs but to no avail. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
I'm using the default Vagrant Box lucid 32, for testing out my setup.
It is better to just specify the locale for the database and have the encoding be figured out from that. So use something like
createdb --locale=en_US.utf8 template_postgis
Both -E UTF8 and --locale=en_US.utf8 are needed
$ createdb -E UTF8 -T template0 --locale=en_US.utf8 template_postgis
Else, try this when you log in to postgresql :
create database databse_name with owner database_owner encoding='UTF-8'lc_collate='en_US.utf8' lc_ctype='en_US.utf8' template template0;
You need to set your operating system's locale to any utf8 compatible locale. Run locale -a to get a list of locales you can use, and then do something like update-locale LANG=en_US.utf8, replacing en_US.utf8 with whatever locale you want.
look at this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/20880/unicode-in-postgresql-8-4/114922#114922
maybe you need configure the locale before to create the cluster
~#export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
~#export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
~#export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
~#locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
~#dpkg-reconfigure locales