Re: PANIC on start

"Marcelo Carvalho Fernandes" <mcf@smartech.com.br> writes:
> I have a PostgreSQL (7.3) with lots of databases. I can't start it after a
> power failure. I�m trying this...

> NS2 - /var/lib/pgsql/data >pg_ctl start
> postmaster successfully started
> PANIC:  The database cluster was initialized with LC_CTYPE 'pt_BR',
>         which is not recognized by setlocale().

Kinda looks like your locale definition file has gone missing.  Probably
reinstalling the locale stuff would help.  (On Red Hat Linux I think
this is part of the glibc-common RPM ... but YMMV on other platforms.)
        regards, tom lane