Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server

Sander Smeenk <ssm+pgsql@freshdot.net> writes:
> Quoting Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us):
>>> To make a long story short: i can't activate that locale again,

>> Why not?  Undoing whatever you did to the locale setup seems a lot
>> easier task than any other option that's open to you.

> The nl_NL@euro.UTF-8 locale I used 'back then' is incorrect. It's not a
> real locale, and the newer versions of libc6 and locales that I have
> installed now don't support the generation of this faulty locale.

If you believe that your new locale is functionally equivalent to the
old (which you'd better, if you're going to risk starting the postmaster
under it), why don't you just make a temporary symlink in
/usr/lib/locale/ ?

            regards, tom lane