Postgresql Starting problem

[manik23]

When I try to run my posgresql (version 7.3.9) I recieve the following error message:

PANIC: The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.iso885915',
which is not recognized by setlocale().
It looks like you need to initdb.
Aborted

Cann someone please tell me how this cann be repaired?
Actualy i have copied the data directory from previos postgresql instalation.

 

[manik23]

By the way... I use postgresql on Linux Slackware 10.0

 

[ceco]

i would recomend to read
man locale-gen
if you do not have locales installed, install them

 

[manik23]

I have readed it, and have this locale installed... I have allso set LANG and all the others to en_US.iso885915...

Any other sugestions...

 

[flugh]

[purple]
Actualy i have copied the data directory from previos postgresql instalation.
[/purple]
I can't give good technical reasons, but I'm betting this is it. You should do a pg_dump then pg_restore instead of trying to copy data directories and files. There's logging (xferlog, clog I think) of transactions that won't stay intact with this method of moving data.

Again, it's just my guess.

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JBR