Re: Error on system startup

On Jan 13, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Manuel Sugawara wrote:

> "Matthew M.Burke" <mmburke@smcm.edu> writes:
>
>> FATAL:  XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to ""
>> LOCATION:  InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:1866
>
> Edit your $PGDATA/postgresql.conf file and look for that variable
> (lc_messages) and change the empty value with a correct one (may be
> en_US). Same for the others lc_* variables.
>

Manuel,

Thanks for the help. I found the variables commented out in
$PGDATA/postgresql.conf and uncommented them.  Didn't help.  Wound up
sticking

export LC_MESSAGES='POSIX'

in the initscript and that seems to be doing the trick.

Matt