NOTICE: Unrecognized variable client_encoding - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Hi-

What does this mean?

% psql template1
NOTICE:  Unrecognized variable client_encoding

I am able to connect, I can create a db and tables but what is this
notice????

I have just upgraded to 7.0.3.

The only other thing I tried to do was run a suite of in house programs
that parse files, create a db and load it with data from the files (and
there were indeed some problems with that including some EOF thing...)

Thanks for the interpretation of this notice

Beth