On 01/11/2014 10:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > It looks like you set the locale settings properly. I'm guessing that > the build lacks localization support. Check the output of > "pg_config --configure" to see if --enable-nls is mentioned. If it > isn't, you need to rebuild with that configuration option. If it is, > then my only remaining guess is that the French message files for > postgres aren't installed. Thanks for the pointers, Tom. I ended up installing 9.3.2 from source while making sure --enable-nls is used. This works fine and I can now see messages like .. LOG: le système de bases de données a été arrêté à 2014-01-11 21:47:41 CET .. in the logs. cheers, -- Dariusz Suchojad https://zato.io ESB, SOA and cloud integrations in Python -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general