"Beth K. Gatewood" <bethg(at)mbt(dot)washington(dot)edu> writes:
> What does this mean?
> % psql template1
> NOTICE: Unrecognized variable client_encoding
It means you're running a MULTIBYTE-enabled psql (or more specifically
libpq) against a non-MULTIBYTE server. Perhaps you are invoking a copy
of libpq from an older installation that was compiled with different
configure options.
The notice is harmless enough, but you may want to get your client and
server into sync...
regards, tom lane