продолжение при инициализации БД...
%./initdb --locale=ru_RU --lc-messages=ru_RU.KOI8-R -d ~/data
Running in debug mode.
initdb: internal variables:
PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
datadir=/usr/local/pgsql/share
PGPATH=.
ENCODING=
ENCODINGID=0
POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres
POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgres.bki
POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgres.description
POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgresql.conf.sample
PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/local/pgsql/share/pg_hba.conf.sample
PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/local/pgsql/share/pg_ident.conf.sample
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locales:
COLLATE: ru_RU
CTYPE: ru_RU
MESSAGES: ru_RU.KOI8-R
MONETARY: ru_RU
NUMERIC: ru_RU
TIME: ru_RU
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... 10
selecting default shared_buffers... 50
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to ""
LOCATION: InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:1866
initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
не проходит и все тут ... что-то с локалью, а что именно?