Re: initdb: invalid locale name "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1"

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:43:31AM +0200, Ragnar Österlund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I try to initialize a new cluster like this:
>
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/initdb --locale=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 -D sv_SE_data/
>
> I get the error:
>
> initdb: invalid locale name "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1"

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.

Either choose a name that is in that list, or add the one you want and
follow the instructions to rebuild the locale database.

Hope this helps,
--
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