Re: Need Help Recovering from Botched Upgrade Attempt

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Klint Gore wrote:

> Make sure that initdb is the version you want
> initdb --version

Klint,

Yes, it is: 8.3.

> then
> initdb -E UTF8 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> then post the output of that.

Very interesting. While en_US is not accepted, UTF8 is.

postgres(at)salmo:/var/lib/pgsql$ initdb -E UTF8 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
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 locales
COLLATE: C
CTYPE: en_US
MESSAGES: en_US
MONETARY: en_US
NUMERIC: en_US
TIME: en_US
could not determine encoding for locale "en_US": codeset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/pgsql/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 24MB/153600
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... ok
loading system objects' descriptions ... ok
creating conversions ... ok
creating dictionaries ... ok
setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok
creating information schema ... ok
vacuuming database template1 ... ok
copying template1 to template0 ... WARNING: could not determine encoding
for locale "en_US": codeset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"
DETAIL: Please report this to <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>.
ok
copying template1 to postgres ... WARNING: could not determine encoding for
locale "en_US": codeset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"
DETAIL: Please report this to <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>.
ok

WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the
next time you run initdb.

Success. You can now start the database server using:

postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
or
pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -l logfile start

Notice the warning detail about us_EN encoding. Is there a protocol for
what to include in a report to pgsql-bugs?

I will now try a new dumpall using the 8.3.3 version, once I find how to
specify a different $PGDATA on the command line.

Rich

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