Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Or maybe it's because of this?
> char *
> pg_dlerror(void)
> {
> return "no error message available";
> }
Hmm, that's sure not helping any :-(. But I don't think it invalidates
my suggestion to look at stderr.
Paul, did you find what was the significant difference between your
boot-time and hand-started postmaster environments?
regards, tom lane