Excerpts from Greg Sabino Mullane's message of jue jul 22 13:34:25 UTC 2010:
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> > Or you can use pg_controldata /path/to/pgdata and look
> > at "Time of latest checkpoint".
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> Assuming your system is using English. Otherwise, you'll
> have to build a collection of .po strings as we did for
> check_postgres.pl. Needless to say, I'd greatly prefer
> some other way to grab the information!
Hmm, wouldn't have it been easier to set LC_MESSAGES to C before calling
pg_controldata?