Andreas Fromm <Andreas.Fromm@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> initdb --locale=de_DE -E UNICODE (tryed LATIN1 also)
> FATAL: invalid value for "lc_messages": "de_DE"
> I'm on a debian/linux box that has many apps with different
> localisations availabel. Does the newest version PgSQL 7.4beta not have
> the localisation support jet?
No, your problem is that your OS doesn't have complete support for de_DE
locale. You will need to pick a supported locale for LC_MESSAGES. I'd
recommend something along the lines of
export LC_ALL=de_DE
export LC_MESSAGES=C -- or something else that works
initdb -E UNICODE
You could try just editing the lc_messages setting in postgresql.conf,
but I am not sure whether that will be sufficient; the original initdb
may have suffered internal failures due to the broken locale setting.
Safest to redo it.
regards, tom lane