初始化集群，建库，建表，建索引，sort | compare QUERY时都可以指定COLLATE。
用法参考
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-createtable.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/collation.html

CREATE DATABASE name[ [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] user_name ][ TEMPLATE [=] template ][ ENCODING [=] encoding ][ LC_COLLATE [=] lc_collate ][ LC_CTYPE [=] lc_ctype ][ TABLESPACE [=] tablespace_name ][ ALLOW_CONNECTIONS [=] allowconn ][ CONNECTION LIMIT [=] connlimit ] ][ IS_TEMPLATE [=] istemplate ]

CREATE TABLE test1 (a text COLLATE "de_DE",b text COLLATE "es_ES",...
);

CREATE [ UNIQUE ] INDEX [ CONCURRENTLY ] [ [ IF NOT EXISTS ] name ] ON table_name [ USING method ]( { column_name | ( expression ) } [ COLLATE collation ] [ opclass ] [ ASC | DESC ] [ NULLS { FIRST | LAST } ] [, ...] )[ WITH ( storage_parameter = value [, ... ] ) ][ TABLESPACE tablespace_name ][ WHERE predicate ]

Character-string data is sorted according to the collation that applies to the column being sorted.
That can be overridden at need by including a COLLATE clause in the expression, for example
ORDER BY mycolumn COLLATE "en_US".

如果你要在一个集群中创建不同的或者与模板库不兼容的LC怎么做呢？
通过template0创建即可，建议你这样做：
新建所有需求的lc库，以它们为模板再创建其他的库。

创建模板库，指定collate
ps PostgreSQL 9.5以下的版本不支持is_template选项，不加即可。

postgres=# create database tmpdb_zh_cn with template template0 lc_collate 'zh_CN.UTF8' lc_ctype 'zh_CN.UTF8' is_template=true;

在模板库中创建一些你需要预定义的东西，包括数据等等。

tmpdb_zh_cn=# create extension hstore;
CREATE EXTENSION

基于模板库创建数据库。

postgres=# create database db1_zh_cn with template tmpdb_zh_cn;
CREATE DATABASEtmp         | postgres | UTF8     | zh_CN.utf8 | zh_CN.utf8 |                       | 7360 kB | pg_default | tmpdb_zh_cn | postgres | UTF8     | zh_CN.UTF8 | zh_CN.UTF8 |                       | 7360 kB | pg_default |
(8 rows)

如果你要删除模板库，需要先把模板库改成普通库再删除。

postgres=# alter database tmpdb_zh_cn is_template false;
ALTER DATABASE
postgres=# drop database tmpdb_zh_cn ;
DROP DATABASE

查询PG支持的collate

postgres=# select * from pg_collation ;collname        | collnamespace | collowner | collencoding |      collcollate      |       collctype
-----------------------+---------------+-----------+--------------+-----------------------+-----------------------default               |            11 |        10 |           -1 |                       | C                     |            11 |        10 |           -1 | C                     | CPOSIX                 |            11 |        10 |           -1 | POSIX                 | POSIXaa_DJ                 |            11 |        10 |            6 | aa_DJ.utf8            | aa_DJ.utf8aa_DJ                 |            11 |        10 |            8 | aa_DJ                 | aa_DJaa_DJ.iso88591        |            11 |        10 |            8 | aa_DJ.iso88591        | aa_DJ.iso88591
......

查询列对应的collate
pg_catalog.pg_attribute.attcollation
对应 pg_collation.oid