initdb

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-initdb.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/locale.html

initdb --locale=C -E UTF-8 /opt/homebrew/var/postgres

initdb --locale=C -E UTF-8 /Users/user/brew/var/postgresql@16

initdb --locale-provider=icu --icu-locale=en

initdb --locale=C -E UTF-8  ./
initdb: error: program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory as "/Users/user/brew/Cellar/libpq/16.1_1/bin/initdb"

Related

locale
brew install postgresql@16
brew services start postgresql@16

See also

• initdb, createdb
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