Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> writes:
> To help my understanding of this type of thing, when he reinits the database, can he get the PG backend to be running with a different LOCALE than the machine's?
Yeah, he needs to set LANG and/or LC_ALL to be 'C' instead of whatever
it's defaulting to on his machine. Then run initdb with that
environment, and he's set.
regards, tom lane