Thanks, everyone. That seems to be it. I still haven't gotten it to work (I tried setting OPENSSL_DEFAULT_ZLIB=true in /etc/postgresql/9.2/main/environment and restarting the server, then adding the same env var when connecting with the client), but now that I know where the problem is, I think I can work through it.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > There's been a few reports on this now. Perhaps we should add a note to > the docs (not necessarily saying how to fix it, as it may differ, but a > note saying that many distributions changed the way this is handled and > that you might need to set an external override)? > That would definitely have helped me, yes. I'd submit a doc patch, but I'm not sure what the right language would be here. Are there other similar caveats documented elsewhere I could crib from?