postgres@casanova1:~/pg_releases/pgtests$ ldd ./test-libpq linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffad1ff000) libpq.so.5 => /usr/local/pgsql/head.client_encoding/lib/libpq.so.5 (0x00007fdea4c48000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdea48f5000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fdea46bd000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdea4e6a000) postgres@casanova1:~/pg_releases/pgtests$ ./test-libpq "dbname=postgres user=postgres client_encoding=auto" PostgreSQL version(): PostgreSQL 8.5devel on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2, 64-bit client_encoding: SQL_ASCII postgres@casanova1:~/pg_releases/pgtests$ ./test-libpq "dbname=postgres user=postgres client_encoding=latin1" PostgreSQL version(): PostgreSQL 8.5devel on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2, 64-bit client_encoding: latin1