The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1344
Logged by: Jan Kraljič

Email address: jan (AT) patware (DOT) si

PostgreSQL version: 7.4.6

Operating system: Linux Debian

Description: Locale problem

Details:

I cannot start postgres because unknow error. In log i can get this:
FATAL: XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to ""
LOCATION: InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:1867
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locale returns me this
....
LC_MESSAGES="sl_SI"
....
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By default i set locale to sl_SI.iso88592

What to do?


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"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs (AT) postgresql (DOT) org> writes:
Are you sure that your LC_MESSAGES setting is compatible with the active
LC_CTYPE setting? I'm not certain about this, but I think that some
platforms may reject the setlocale call if LC_MESSAGES implies a
different encoding (eg, utf8 vs latin-n) than LC_CTYPE does.

regards, tom lane

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