Re: Failed to initialize lc_messages to ''

On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> jan(dot)berka(at)dreger(dot)de (Jan B.) writes:
>> when I try to execute initdb I get the following errors:
>
>> The database cluster will be initialized with locales:
>> COLLATE: POSIX CTYPE: en_US MESSAGES: en_US
>> MONETARY: en_US NUMERIC: en_US TIME: en_US
>
>> creating template1 database in /opt/pgsql/data/base/1... Failed to
>> initialize lc_messages to ''
>
> What platform is this? You should complain to the relevant people
> about
> their broken locale definitions. If they're going to set en_US as the
> default locale then it darn well ought to work in all locale
> categories.
>

Mac OS X does this. See my recent post on the subject here:

http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1064449

--Jeremy