On Jan 13, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Manuel Sugawara wrote:
> "Matthew M.Burke" <mmburke(at)smcm(dot)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