Rackspace Cloud Server Ubuntu and postgresql
I’ve started using the Rackspace cloud servers for a few clients. This afternoon I ran into an issue that, after installing postgres 8.4, it was not setup properly by apt.
The reason turns out that the Language Package is not properly setup by ubuntu karmic when rackspace creates the server instance (see: http://cloudservers.mosso.com/index.php/Ubuntu_-_Repairing_Perl_Locale_Errors).
Before doing any package configuration, please ensure you fix the language pack as identified above!