permission denied to set parameter "lc_monetary" to "C"

Question

i'm trying to open a connection and i'm getting the following error:

permission denied to set parameter "lc_monetary" to "C"

what should I do?

Answer 1

I've had the same problem trying to connect to an Amazon Redshift cluster while using the recommended library, Npgsql.

What worked for me was the removal/commenting of the following line at the file NpgsqlStartupPacket.cs @ 63:

parameters.Add("lc_monetary", "C");

The same lc_monetary setting appears in another file which has a description of it's use: NpgsqlConnector.cs @ 953.

However, this should not be taken as a solution but a workaround since I am yet to determine the impact of this change. But it looks like Redshift doesn't support this feature.