Re: initdb and OSX why must I --no-locale

Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I've just finished the install of 7.3 release on mac
> OSX 10.2.2. I notice that initdb will permit me to
> init a directory for use, then when running postmaster
> using the directory I get a fatal error:

> FATAL: invalid value for option 'LC_TIME': 'en'

Are you sure it didn't say 'en_US' ? That's what I get on OSX if
I don't set LANG to C (or equivalently use --no-locale).

> BTW, what is the problem with OSX that it requires
> --no-locale?

Apple's locale handling seems to be fairly broken. They should not set
LANG to a value that their own library won't accept. I'd suggest filing
a bug report with them.

regards, tom lane