PostgreSQL 10 on Linux - LC_COLLATE locale en_US.utf-8 not valid

Question

ERROR: invalid locale name: \"en_US.utf-8\"

Running Ubuntu server 18.04 Beta 2 with PostgreSQL 10.

In running a database creatio

Answer 1

check for available locales with locale -a if not found, try manually adding it with:

locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 

after this

CREATE DATABASE db WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.UTF-8';

should work