Re: Automatic conversion from Unicode

Michael Brusser <michael(at)synchronicity(dot)com> writes:
> I looked into table pg_conversion - it's empty.

We've seen that reported before. IIRC, it is possible to have
dynamic-linking problems with loading the pg_conversion support
libraries, and the 7.3 version of initdb has a bad habit of sending
the resulting error messages to /dev/null rather than letting you
know there's a problem.

You might try
initdb -d -D some_junk_directory 2>initdb.err
(beware, this will produce megabytes worth of uninteresting messages
on stderr), and then looking at the last few hundred lines for relevant
error messages.

I spent a little time digging in the archives for previous reports,
without much success, but I remember it's come up before.

regards, tom lane