Re: Error starting backend - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jason Lee
Subject Re: Error starting backend
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Msg-id 3ED61DA6.8070803@theleehouse.net
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In response to Error starting backend  ("jason" <jason@theleehouse.net>)
Responses Re: Error starting backend  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Re: Error starting backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Any thoughts on this?  I'm at a loss on what to try next.  I appreciate any help
anyone can give. :P

Thanks a lot!

jason wrote:

> I had a hard drive die on me.  In rebuilding my system, I found out that my
> backup process wasn't working correctly, so I don't have any dumps that I can
> just load into the new setup.  I was able, however, to save the data directory
> from the old drive.  If I try to start the backend up with that data dir,
> though, I get this error:
>
> PANIC:  The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8',
>         which is not recognized by setlocale().
>         It looks like you need to initdb.
>
> Any idea how I can get around that?  Thanks a lot!
>
> jason
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