Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Miquel van Smoorenburg
Subject Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server
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Msg-id binpbd$p8v$1@news.cistron.nl
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In response to PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server  (Sander Smeenk <ssm+pgsql@freshdot.net>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL upgrade -> fails to start server  (Sander Smeenk <ssm+pgsql@freshdot.net>)
List pgsql-general
In article <20030829095837.GA24442@freshdot.net>,
Sander Smeenk  <ssm+pgsql@freshdot.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>After a very recent postgresql update, the postmaster failed to start
>because of this:
>
>| PANIC:  The database cluster was initialized with LC_CTYPE
>|         'nl_NL@euro.UTF-8', which is not recognized by setlocale().
>|         It looks like you need to initdb.
>
>Is there some way that I can get to my precious databases?

You have the source. Find where it prints this, make it not panic
but continue, recompile, run that server, run psql, drop the indexes,
dump the database.

Mike.
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