Re: initdb failed: invalid value for parameter "lc_messages": "1033"

From: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
To: Ann Saust Rossi <saust(at)acrx(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb failed: invalid value for parameter "lc_messages": "1033"
Date: 2004-07-29 20:11:42
Message-ID: 20040729201142.GC54688@tishler.net
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Ann,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:39:21PM -0400, Ann Saust Rossi wrote:
> But can somebody tell me how to fix this, i.e. change the locale to
> "C"?

The current README indicates the following:

2. Cygwin PostgreSQL only supports the "C" locale because Cygwin
itself does not fully support locales. This implies the LANG
environment variable must be unset or set to "C". Otherwise, initdb
will fail.

Jason

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