Re: locale warning and postgresql

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:53:59AM +0000, Myles English wrote:
> 
> on [2016-11-28] at 23:37 Myles English writes:
> 
> > $ initdb --locale=en_GB -E UTF8 -D '/home/myles/pgdata-guix'
> > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "myles".
> > This user must also own the server process.
> >
> > initdb: invalid locale name "en_GB"
> 
> Excuse my arrogance, I thought that en_GB was important enough to make
> it into glibc-utf8-locales.  After installing glibc-locales it works.

Glibc-ut8-locales is a small subset of glibc-locales. It's partially
intended for test environments, where using the full set of locales
could be impractical:

$ guix size glibc-utf8-locales
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/bhj5xdwwd2dg770lmlks7hyny8vzjm9x-glibc-utf8-locales-2.24     6.3     6.3 100.0%
total: 6.3 MiB
$ guix size glibc-locales     
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/hyi7svs0ds79wrcg5l0nr36zzjikqj7i-glibc-locales-2.24     474.5   474.5 100.0%
total: 474.5 MiB

Almost two orders of magnitude difference!