Re: initdb "Fails to initialize lc_time" (using 7.3.1) - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: initdb "Fails to initialize lc_time" (using 7.3.1)
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Msg-id 25326.1028847551@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: initdb "Fails to initialize lc_time" (using 7.3.1)  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: initdb "Fails to initialize lc_time" (using 7.3.1)  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Specifically, if my environment is set to locale A and I initialize a
> cluster with locale B, I still want the possible error messages of
> "postgres -boot" to come out in locale A.

Even if that means you fail to detect that locale B is broken in some
way?

I'm not at all sure I buy this reasoning.  If the user has told us a
locale to use on the initdb command line, seems to me he wants us to use
that locale, period.

            regards, tom lane

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