Alex Krohn <alex@gossamer-threads.com> writes:
> [postgres@penguin pgsql]$ locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_ALL=en_US
> [postgres@penguin pgsql]$
> Postmaster is running as user pgsql. Any ideas on workarounds?
Use locale "C" unless you have a really good reason why you need
en_US sorting order.
Beware of changing the postmaster's locale on the fly, however,
since that will leave you with corrupted (out-of-order) indexes.
Safest to dump/initdb in new locale/reload.
regards, tom lane