Commit 72512828 authored by John Paulett's avatar John Paulett Committed by Claude Paroz
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Fixed #17207 -- Added a troubleshooting note about failing createdb

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@@ -757,6 +757,21 @@ Similarly, on Red Hat and CentOS systems::

    $ sudo yum install binutils

PostgreSQL's createdb fails
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When the PostgreSQL cluster uses a non-UTF8 encoding, the
:file:`create_template_postgis-*.sh` script will fail when executing
``createdb``::

    createdb: database creation failed: ERROR:  new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible
      with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)

The `current workaround`__ is to re-create the cluster using UTF8 (back up any
databases before dropping the cluster).

__ http://jacobian.org/writing/pg-encoding-ubuntu/

Platform-specific instructions
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