Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Problems connecting to remote Postgres (multibyte strings)

Oops. I just discovered that someone had previously installed Postgres 7.0 from RPMs and that the pgdriver was using 7.0's shared library. Uninstalling PG 7.0 and explicitly listing the 7.1.2 shared library directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to have fixed the problem.