Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Also, is there anyway we can detect this problem when it happens and
> throw a clear error?
Our documentation claims that psql will throw an error at startup time
if you've bollixed your code page setting, but I'm darned if I see any
code that does so. Is this something that happens down in the guts of
Microsoft's libc equivalent, or is the documentation simply lying?
regards, tom lane