Re: case sensitive/insensitive confusion

I seem to have a problem with controlling the locale.

Mac os x, postgresql 8.0.1

./configure --with-rendezvous --enable-thread-safety
--enable-locale

but when I try:

initdb --locale=es_ES ~/testdb

I get:

The files belonging to this database system will be
owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale
es_ES.
initdb: could not find suitable encoding for locale
"es_ES"
Rerun initdb with the -E option.
Try "initdb --help" for more information.

Am I missing something in OS X, or is this a
postgresql issue, or a combination?

I even tried

initdb --locale=en_US ~/testdb

and I still get the same error....

I am actually looking based on a conversation with
someone in Portugal that can not figure it out and he
needs it.

Any help to pointers would be great...

Ted

--- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> Christoph Haller wrote:
> > It seems to me under hpux the sort is done case
> sensitive,
> > as would one expect on SQL_ASCII encoding, whereas
> > under linux a case insensitive sort is done.
>
> The sort order depends entirely on the locale that
> you specify to initdb
> (not the encoding). Please check the documentation
> there.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
>
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