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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: INSTALLING POSTGRESQL 7.4.2
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Msg-id 3940.1085152825@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to INSTALLING POSTGRESQL 7.4.2  (Philippe VERSCHOOTEN <ph.verschooten@rmnet.be>)
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Philippe VERSCHOOTEN <ph.verschooten@rmnet.be> writes:
> I am have been installing version 7.4.2 of postgesql through different
> channels on my PowerBook G4 (OS X 10.2.8).

> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data//base/1... FATAL:
> invalid value for parameter "lc_time": "en_US"

We've seen reports like that before; it seems that OS X has rather flaky
(incomplete) support for locales.  I'd suggest forcing use of C locale,
myself.  "initdb --no-locale" will do it IIRC.

            regards, tom lane

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