Backport: Simplify pg-upgrade initdb by removing locale parameters
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This is the backport of Simplify pg-upgrade initdb by removing locale p... (!9160 - merged)
18.9 introduced PostgreSQL 17, our pg-upgrade fails to upgrade the database, since
lc_collate and lc_ctype are removed in PostgreSQL 16 Those settings are per-database.
Related: #9645 (closed)
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Edited by Lucas Li