Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Specifically, if my environment is set to locale A and I initialize a
> cluster with locale B, I still want the possible error messages of
> "postgres -boot" to come out in locale A.
Even if that means you fail to detect that locale B is broken in some
way?
I'm not at all sure I buy this reasoning. If the user has told us a
locale to use on the initdb command line, seems to me he wants us to use
that locale, period.
regards, tom lane