Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
>> creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/1 ... FATAL:
>> XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to ""
We've seen this reported occasionally before, but none of the PG
developers have ever been able to reproduce it. Do you have any
LC_xxx environment variables besides what you showed? Could you
try running initdb under "strace -f -o logfile" and send me the
output (off-list, it'll likely be big)?
regards, tom lane