Here is small patch to help people reading the documentation
under Cygwin.
--- INSTALL.orig 2004-01-16 18:23:24.000000000 +0200
+++ INSTALL 2004-01-17 09:11:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,11 +15,24 @@
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
su - postgres
- /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
+ LC_ALL=C /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
+Note, Under Cygwin the data installation directory is:
+
+ /var/postgresql/data
+
+In case you have a personal local environment set, the LC_ALL above will fix
+this message:
+
+ creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1...
+ FATAL: invalid value for parameter "lc_messages": "en_US"
+
+ initdb: failed
+ initdb: removing data directory "/usr/share/postgresql/data"
+
The long version is the rest of this document.
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