First excuse me for my poor english. I just experienced a stupid bug, after a windows clean installation of postgresql 8.3.7-1 i tried to psql into db and it failed with the message: psql: FATAL: invalid value for parameter "client_encoding": "DEFAULT " please note that there is a space after default... Ok, I irc chatted and RodiumToad solved it for me (again many BIG thanks), i just could not see it. Postgres creates links in start/... and I always used the one named "command prompt" as a shortcut to psql, BUT in this version (just downloaded) the link destination is "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k set PGCLIENTENCODING=DEFAULT && set PGPORT=5432" instead of "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k set PGCLIENTENCODING=DEFAULT&& set PGPORT=5432" There should be no space after DEFAULT.
Well i lost 2 days thinking about psql bugs, installation bugs, my batch installer, etc... so i expose it so no others will lose their time searching for this typo. Sincerely Tiziano
