Re:

Mary O'Donovan wrote:
> Hello I am running cygwin and Windows XP and get the following error.
>
> $ /usr/bin/psql -x  -E -l
>
> ********* QUERY **********
>
> SELECT d.datname as "Name",
>
>        u.usename as "Owner",
>
>        pg_catalog.pg_encoding_to_char(d.encoding) as "Encoding"
>
> FROM pg_catalog.pg_database d
>
>   LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_user u ON d.datdba = u.usesysid
>
> ORDER BY 1;
>
> **************************
>
>
>
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "("

Maybe you are connected to an older server.