"James B. Byrne" <byrnejb(at)harte-lyne(dot)ca> writes:
> I am particularly nonplussed over the 'ERROR: 55P02: parameter
> "standard_conforming_strings" cannot be changed' message. Can
> anyone here clue me in as to what I am doing wrong?
8.1 did have a read-only parameter named that; in 8.2 and later it's
a read-write parameter. Sounds like you're using some client-side
software that's not designed to work against such an old server,
and expects that it can set the value however it likes.
regards, tom lane