Forest Wilkinson <fspam@home.com> writes:
> I was just about to give postgres 7.0.2 a try on my development machine,
> but after installing it, I find that I can't connect to my 6.5.2
> production servers. The following error message is reported by both psql
> and pgaccess, upon trying to connect:
> ERROR: MultiByte strings (MB) must be enabled to use this function
> The connection then fails. Is there some way around this, short of
> upgrading all my production servers?
Recompile your 7.0 libpq without MULTIBYTE support.
7.0 servers are less stiff-necked about this incompatibility, but that
won't help you with a 6.5 server...
regards, tom lane