Script for dealing with creating Postgres databases that complain with: ``` PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1. ``` ...when trying to create the production DB. Taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13115692/encoding-utf8-does-not-match-…

psql_encoding.sql

sudo su postgres

psql

update pg_database set datistemplate=false where datname='template1';
drop database Template1;
create database template1 with owner=postgres encoding='UTF-8'
  lc_collate='en_US.utf8' lc_ctype='en_US.utf8' template template0;

update pg_database set datistemplate=true where datname='template1';

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