> > The issue is that if I set my machine's locale to Turkish
> or French,
> > say, it doesn't matter what locale I set during initdb or in
> > postgresql.conf, the server's log messages always seem to
> come out in
> > the machine's locale.
>
> Does this happen only for those locales? And how specifically
> do you set the locale?
>
> I just installed to verify, and my server goes up in english
> no problem, even though my locale is set to swedish. The
> client tools (psql, for
> example) come up in swedish, so it's definitly swedish
> locale. And by donig "set LANG=en" before I start psql, it
> comes up in english just fine.
I should probably say this is 8.1.1, not cvs head, but I don't recall
any changes around this.
//Magnus