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3 <em class="firstterm">Locale</em> support refers to an application respecting
4 cultural preferences regarding alphabets, sorting, number
5 formatting, etc. <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> uses the standard ISO
6 C and <acronym class="acronym">POSIX</acronym> locale facilities provided by the server operating
7 system. For additional information refer to the documentation of your
9 </p><div class="sect2" id="LOCALE-OVERVIEW"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">23.1.1. Overview <a href="#LOCALE-OVERVIEW" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
10 Locale support is automatically initialized when a database
11 cluster is created using <code class="command">initdb</code>.
12 <code class="command">initdb</code> will initialize the database cluster
13 with the locale setting of its execution environment by default,
14 so if your system is already set to use the locale that you want
15 in your database cluster then there is nothing else you need to
16 do. If you want to use a different locale (or you are not sure
17 which locale your system is set to), you can instruct
18 <code class="command">initdb</code> exactly which locale to use by
19 specifying the <code class="option">--locale</code> option. For example:
20 </p><pre class="screen">
24 This example for Unix systems sets the locale to Swedish
25 (<code class="literal">sv</code>) as spoken
26 in Sweden (<code class="literal">SE</code>). Other possibilities might include
27 <code class="literal">en_US</code> (U.S. English) and <code class="literal">fr_CA</code> (French
28 Canadian). If more than one character set can be used for a
29 locale then the specifications can take the form
30 <em class="replaceable"><code>language_territory.codeset</code></em>. For example,
31 <code class="literal">fr_BE.UTF-8</code> represents the French language (fr) as
32 spoken in Belgium (BE), with a <acronym class="acronym">UTF-8</acronym> character set
35 What locales are available on your
36 system under what names depends on what was provided by the operating
37 system vendor and what was installed. On most Unix systems, the command
38 <code class="literal">locale -a</code> will provide a list of available locales.
39 Windows uses more verbose locale names, such as <code class="literal">German_Germany</code>
40 or <code class="literal">Swedish_Sweden.1252</code>, but the principles are the same.
42 Occasionally it is useful to mix rules from several locales, e.g.,
43 use English collation rules but Spanish messages. To support that, a
44 set of locale subcategories exist that control only certain
45 aspects of the localization rules:
47 </p><div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" border="1"><colgroup><col class="col1" /><col class="col2" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><td><code class="envar">LC_COLLATE</code></td><td>String sort order</td></tr><tr><td><code class="envar">LC_CTYPE</code></td><td>Character classification (What is a letter? Its upper-case equivalent?)</td></tr><tr><td><code class="envar">LC_MESSAGES</code></td><td>Language of messages</td></tr><tr><td><code class="envar">LC_MONETARY</code></td><td>Formatting of currency amounts</td></tr><tr><td><code class="envar">LC_NUMERIC</code></td><td>Formatting of numbers</td></tr><tr><td><code class="envar">LC_TIME</code></td><td>Formatting of dates and times</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>
49 The category names translate into names of
50 <code class="command">initdb</code> options to override the locale choice
51 for a specific category. For instance, to set the locale to
52 French Canadian, but use U.S. rules for formatting currency, use
53 <code class="literal">initdb --locale=fr_CA --lc-monetary=en_US</code>.
55 If you want the system to behave as if it had no locale support,
56 use the special locale name <code class="literal">C</code>, or equivalently
57 <code class="literal">POSIX</code>.
59 Some locale categories must have their values
60 fixed when the database is created. You can use different settings
61 for different databases, but once a database is created, you cannot
62 change them for that database anymore. <code class="literal">LC_COLLATE</code>
63 and <code class="literal">LC_CTYPE</code> are these categories. They affect
64 the sort order of indexes, so they must be kept fixed, or indexes on
65 text columns would become corrupt.
66 (But you can alleviate this restriction using collations, as discussed
67 in <a class="xref" href="collation.html" title="23.2. Collation Support">Section 23.2</a>.)
68 The default values for these
69 categories are determined when <code class="command">initdb</code> is run, and
70 those values are used when new databases are created, unless
71 specified otherwise in the <code class="command">CREATE DATABASE</code> command.
73 The other locale categories can be changed whenever desired
74 by setting the server configuration parameters
75 that have the same name as the locale categories (see <a class="xref" href="runtime-config-client.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CLIENT-FORMAT" title="19.11.2. Locale and Formatting">Section 19.11.2</a> for details). The values
76 that are chosen by <code class="command">initdb</code> are actually only written
77 into the configuration file <code class="filename">postgresql.conf</code> to
78 serve as defaults when the server is started. If you remove these
79 assignments from <code class="filename">postgresql.conf</code> then the
80 server will inherit the settings from its execution environment.
82 Note that the locale behavior of the server is determined by the
83 environment variables seen by the server, not by the environment
84 of any client. Therefore, be careful to configure the correct locale settings
85 before starting the server. A consequence of this is that if
86 client and server are set up in different locales, messages might
87 appear in different languages depending on where they originated.
88 </p><div class="note"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
89 When we speak of inheriting the locale from the execution
90 environment, this means the following on most operating systems:
91 For a given locale category, say the collation, the following
92 environment variables are consulted in this order until one is
93 found to be set: <code class="envar">LC_ALL</code>, <code class="envar">LC_COLLATE</code>
94 (or the variable corresponding to the respective category),
95 <code class="envar">LANG</code>. If none of these environment variables are
96 set then the locale defaults to <code class="literal">C</code>.
98 Some message localization libraries also look at the environment
99 variable <code class="envar">LANGUAGE</code> which overrides all other locale
100 settings for the purpose of setting the language of messages. If
101 in doubt, please refer to the documentation of your operating
102 system, in particular the documentation about
103 <span class="application">gettext</span>.
105 To enable messages to be translated to the user's preferred language,
106 <acronym class="acronym">NLS</acronym> must have been selected at build time
107 (<code class="literal">configure --enable-nls</code>). All other locale support is
108 built in automatically.
109 </p></div><div class="sect2" id="LOCALE-BEHAVIOR"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">23.1.2. Behavior <a href="#LOCALE-BEHAVIOR" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
110 The locale settings influence the following SQL features:
112 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
113 Sort order in queries using <code class="literal">ORDER BY</code> or the standard
114 comparison operators on textual data
115 <a id="id-1.6.10.3.5.2.1.1.1.2" class="indexterm"></a>
116 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
117 The <code class="function">upper</code>, <code class="function">lower</code>, and <code class="function">initcap</code>
119 <a id="id-1.6.10.3.5.2.1.2.1.4" class="indexterm"></a>
120 <a id="id-1.6.10.3.5.2.1.2.1.5" class="indexterm"></a>
121 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
122 Pattern matching operators (<code class="literal">LIKE</code>, <code class="literal">SIMILAR TO</code>,
123 and POSIX-style regular expressions); locales affect both case
124 insensitive matching and the classification of characters by
125 character-class regular expressions
126 <a id="id-1.6.10.3.5.2.1.3.1.3" class="indexterm"></a>
127 <a id="id-1.6.10.3.5.2.1.3.1.4" class="indexterm"></a>
128 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
129 The <code class="function">to_char</code> family of functions
130 <a id="id-1.6.10.3.5.2.1.4.1.2" class="indexterm"></a>
131 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
132 The ability to use indexes with <code class="literal">LIKE</code> clauses
133 </p></li></ul></div><p>
135 The drawback of using locales other than <code class="literal">C</code> or
136 <code class="literal">POSIX</code> in <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> is its performance
137 impact. It slows character handling and prevents ordinary indexes
138 from being used by <code class="literal">LIKE</code>. For this reason use locales
139 only if you actually need them.
141 As a workaround to allow <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> to use indexes
142 with <code class="literal">LIKE</code> clauses under a non-C locale, several custom
143 operator classes exist. These allow the creation of an index that
144 performs a strict character-by-character comparison, ignoring
145 locale comparison rules. Refer to <a class="xref" href="indexes-opclass.html" title="11.10. Operator Classes and Operator Families">Section 11.10</a>
146 for more information. Another approach is to create indexes using
147 the <code class="literal">C</code> collation, as discussed in
148 <a class="xref" href="collation.html" title="23.2. Collation Support">Section 23.2</a>.
149 </p></div><div class="sect2" id="LOCALE-SELECTING-LOCALES"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">23.1.3. Selecting Locales <a href="#LOCALE-SELECTING-LOCALES" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
150 Locales can be selected in different scopes depending on requirements.
151 The above overview showed how locales are specified using
152 <code class="command">initdb</code> to set the defaults for the entire cluster. The
153 following list shows where locales can be selected. Each item provides
154 the defaults for the subsequent items, and each lower item allows
155 overriding the defaults on a finer granularity.
156 </p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p>
157 As explained above, the environment of the operating system provides the
158 defaults for the locales of a newly initialized database cluster. In
159 many cases, this is enough: if the operating system is configured for
160 the desired language/territory, by default
161 <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> will also behave according
163 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
164 As shown above, command-line options for <code class="command">initdb</code>
165 specify the locale settings for a newly initialized database cluster.
166 Use this if the operating system does not have the locale configuration
167 you want for your database system.
168 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
169 A locale can be selected separately for each database. The SQL command
170 <code class="command">CREATE DATABASE</code> and its command-line equivalent
171 <code class="command">createdb</code> have options for that. Use this for example
172 if a database cluster houses databases for multiple tenants with
173 different requirements.
174 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
175 Locale settings can be made for individual table columns. This uses an
176 SQL object called <em class="firstterm">collation</em> and is explained in
177 <a class="xref" href="collation.html" title="23.2. Collation Support">Section 23.2</a>. Use this for example to sort data in
178 different languages or customize the sort order of a particular table.
179 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
180 Finally, locales can be selected for an individual query. Again, this
181 uses SQL collation objects. This could be used to change the sort order
182 based on run-time choices or for ad-hoc experimentation.
183 </p></li></ol></div></div><div class="sect2" id="LOCALE-PROVIDERS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">23.1.4. Locale Providers <a href="#LOCALE-PROVIDERS" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
184 A locale provider specifies which library defines the locale behavior for
185 collations and character classifications.
187 The commands and tools that select the locale settings, as described
188 above, each have an option to select the locale provider. Here is an
189 example to initialize a database cluster using the ICU provider:
190 </p><pre class="programlisting">
191 initdb --locale-provider=icu --icu-locale=en
193 See the description of the respective commands and programs for
194 details. Note that you can mix locale providers at different
195 granularities, for example use <code class="literal">libc</code> by default for the
196 cluster but have one database that uses the <code class="literal">icu</code>
197 provider, and then have collation objects using either provider within
200 Regardless of the locale provider, the operating system is still used to
201 provide some locale-aware behavior, such as messages (see <a class="xref" href="runtime-config-client.html#GUC-LC-MESSAGES">lc_messages</a>).
203 The available locale providers are listed below:
204 </p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><code class="literal">builtin</code></span></dt><dd><p>
205 The <code class="literal">builtin</code> provider uses built-in operations. Only
206 the <code class="literal">C</code>, <code class="literal">C.UTF-8</code>, and
207 <code class="literal">PG_UNICODE_FAST</code> locales are supported for this
210 The <code class="literal">C</code> locale behavior is identical to the
211 <code class="literal">C</code> locale in the libc provider. When using this
212 locale, the behavior may depend on the database encoding.
214 The <code class="literal">C.UTF-8</code> locale is available only for when the
215 database encoding is <code class="literal">UTF-8</code>, and the behavior is
216 based on Unicode. The collation uses the code point values only. The
217 regular expression character classes are based on the "POSIX
218 Compatible" semantics, and the case mapping is the "simple" variant.
220 The <code class="literal">PG_UNICODE_FAST</code> locale is available only when
221 the database encoding is <code class="literal">UTF-8</code>, and the behavior is
222 based on Unicode. The collation uses the code point values only. The
223 regular expression character classes are based on the "Standard"
224 semantics, and the case mapping is the "full" variant.
225 </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="literal">icu</code></span></dt><dd><p>
226 The <code class="literal">icu</code> provider uses the external
227 ICU<a id="id-1.6.10.3.7.6.2.2.1.2" class="indexterm"></a>
228 library. <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> must have been
229 configured with support.
231 ICU provides collation and character classification behavior that is
232 independent of the operating system and database encoding, which is
233 preferable if you expect to transition to other platforms without any
234 change in results. <code class="literal">LC_COLLATE</code> and
235 <code class="literal">LC_CTYPE</code> can be set independently of the ICU
237 </p><div class="note"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
238 For the ICU provider, results may depend on the version of the ICU
239 library used, as it is updated to reflect changes in natural language
241 </p></div></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="literal">libc</code></span></dt><dd><p>
242 The <code class="literal">libc</code> provider uses the operating system's C
243 library. The collation and character classification behavior is
244 controlled by the settings <code class="literal">LC_COLLATE</code> and
245 <code class="literal">LC_CTYPE</code>, so they cannot be set independently.
246 </p><div class="note"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
247 The same locale name may have different behavior on different
248 platforms when using the libc provider.
249 </p></div></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" id="ICU-LOCALES"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">23.1.5. ICU Locales <a href="#ICU-LOCALES" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><div class="sect3" id="ICU-LOCALE-NAMES"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">23.1.5.1. ICU Locale Names <a href="#ICU-LOCALE-NAMES" class="id_link">#</a></h4></div></div></div><p>
250 The ICU format for the locale name is a <a class="link" href="locale.html#ICU-LANGUAGE-TAG" title="23.1.5.3. Language Tag">Language Tag</a>.
252 </p><pre class="programlisting">
253 CREATE COLLATION mycollation1 (provider = icu, locale = 'ja-JP');
254 CREATE COLLATION mycollation2 (provider = icu, locale = 'fr');
256 </p></div><div class="sect3" id="ICU-CANONICALIZATION"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">23.1.5.2. Locale Canonicalization and Validation <a href="#ICU-CANONICALIZATION" class="id_link">#</a></h4></div></div></div><p>
257 When defining a new ICU collation object or database with ICU as the
258 provider, the given locale name is transformed ("canonicalized") into a
259 language tag if not already in that form. For instance,
261 </p><pre class="screen">
262 CREATE COLLATION mycollation3 (provider = icu, locale = 'en-US-u-kn-true');
263 NOTICE: using standard form "en-US-u-kn" for locale "en-US-u-kn-true"
264 CREATE COLLATION mycollation4 (provider = icu, locale = 'de_DE.utf8');
265 NOTICE: using standard form "de-DE" for locale "de_DE.utf8"
268 If you see this notice, ensure that the <code class="symbol">provider</code> and
269 <code class="symbol">locale</code> are the expected result. For consistent results
270 when using the ICU provider, specify the canonical <a class="link" href="locale.html#ICU-LANGUAGE-TAG" title="23.1.5.3. Language Tag">language tag</a> instead of relying on the
273 A locale with no language name, or the special language name
274 <code class="literal">root</code>, is transformed to have the language
275 <code class="literal">und</code> ("undefined").
277 ICU can transform most libc locale names, as well as some other formats,
278 into language tags for easier transition to ICU. If a libc locale name is
279 used in ICU, it may not have precisely the same behavior as in libc.
281 If there is a problem interpreting the locale name, or if the locale name
282 represents a language or region that ICU does not recognize, you will see
283 the following warning:
285 </p><pre class="screen">
286 CREATE COLLATION nonsense (provider = icu, locale = 'nonsense');
287 WARNING: ICU locale "nonsense" has unknown language "nonsense"
288 HINT: To disable ICU locale validation, set parameter icu_validation_level to DISABLED.
292 <a class="xref" href="runtime-config-client.html#GUC-ICU-VALIDATION-LEVEL">icu_validation_level</a> controls how the message is
293 reported. Unless set to <code class="literal">ERROR</code>, the collation will
294 still be created, but the behavior may not be what the user intended.
295 </p></div><div class="sect3" id="ICU-LANGUAGE-TAG"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">23.1.5.3. Language Tag <a href="#ICU-LANGUAGE-TAG" class="id_link">#</a></h4></div></div></div><p>
296 A language tag, defined in BCP 47, is a standardized identifier used to
297 identify languages, regions, and other information about a locale.
299 Basic language tags are simply
300 <em class="replaceable"><code>language</code></em><code class="literal">-</code><em class="replaceable"><code>region</code></em>;
301 or even just <em class="replaceable"><code>language</code></em>. The
302 <em class="replaceable"><code>language</code></em> is a language code
303 (e.g. <code class="literal">fr</code> for French), and
304 <em class="replaceable"><code>region</code></em> is a region code
305 (e.g. <code class="literal">CA</code> for Canada). Examples:
306 <code class="literal">ja-JP</code>, <code class="literal">de</code>, or
307 <code class="literal">fr-CA</code>.
309 Collation settings may be included in the language tag to customize
310 collation behavior. ICU allows extensive customization, such as
311 sensitivity (or insensitivity) to accents, case, and punctuation;
312 treatment of digits within text; and many other options to satisfy a
315 To include this additional collation information in a language tag,
316 append <code class="literal">-u</code>, which indicates there are additional
317 collation settings, followed by one or more
318 <code class="literal">-</code><em class="replaceable"><code>key</code></em><code class="literal">-</code><em class="replaceable"><code>value</code></em>
319 pairs. The <em class="replaceable"><code>key</code></em> is the key for a <a class="link" href="collation.html#ICU-COLLATION-SETTINGS" title="23.2.3.2. Collation Settings for an ICU Locale">collation setting</a> and
320 <em class="replaceable"><code>value</code></em> is a valid value for that setting. For
321 boolean settings, the <code class="literal">-</code><em class="replaceable"><code>key</code></em>
322 may be specified without a corresponding
323 <code class="literal">-</code><em class="replaceable"><code>value</code></em>, which implies a
324 value of <code class="literal">true</code>.
326 For example, the language tag <code class="literal">en-US-u-kn-ks-level2</code>
327 means the locale with the English language in the US region, with
328 collation settings <code class="literal">kn</code> set to <code class="literal">true</code>
329 and <code class="literal">ks</code> set to <code class="literal">level2</code>. Those
330 settings mean the collation will be case-insensitive and treat a sequence
331 of digits as a single number:
333 </p><pre class="screen">
334 CREATE COLLATION mycollation5 (provider = icu, deterministic = false, locale = 'en-US-u-kn-ks-level2');
335 SELECT 'aB' = 'Ab' COLLATE mycollation5 as result;
341 SELECT 'N-45' < 'N-123' COLLATE mycollation5 as result;
348 See <a class="xref" href="collation.html#ICU-CUSTOM-COLLATIONS" title="23.2.3. ICU Custom Collations">Section 23.2.3</a> for details and additional
349 examples of using language tags with custom collation information for the
351 </p></div></div><div class="sect2" id="LOCALE-PROBLEMS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">23.1.6. Problems <a href="#LOCALE-PROBLEMS" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
352 If locale support doesn't work according to the explanation above,
353 check that the locale support in your operating system is
354 correctly configured. To check what locales are installed on your
355 system, you can use the command <code class="literal">locale -a</code> if
356 your operating system provides it.
358 Check that <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> is actually using the locale
359 that you think it is. The <code class="envar">LC_COLLATE</code> and <code class="envar">LC_CTYPE</code>
360 settings are determined when a database is created, and cannot be
361 changed except by creating a new database. Other locale
362 settings including <code class="envar">LC_MESSAGES</code> and <code class="envar">LC_MONETARY</code>
363 are initially determined by the environment the server is started
364 in, but can be changed on-the-fly. You can check the active locale
365 settings using the <code class="command">SHOW</code> command.
367 The directory <code class="filename">src/test/locale</code> in the source
368 distribution contains a test suite for
369 <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span>'s locale support.
371 Client applications that handle server-side errors by parsing the
372 text of the error message will obviously have problems when the
373 server's messages are in a different language. Authors of such
374 applications are advised to make use of the error code scheme
377 Maintaining catalogs of message translations requires the on-going
378 efforts of many volunteers that want to see
379 <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> speak their preferred language well.
380 If messages in your language are currently not available or not fully
381 translated, your assistance would be appreciated. If you want to
382 help, refer to <a class="xref" href="nls.html" title="Chapter 56. Native Language Support">Chapter 56</a> or write to the developers'
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