Hello,
I have installed postgresql 8.3 in linux Mint 6 r1 (ubuntu 8.10) and the ruby from ubuntu repositories, then "gem install rails -y"
I've installed "gem -install postgres-pr -y" and configured the database.yml as follows:
database.yml
Sorry, I've forgotten to say that I've tried to issue manually those queries that postgresql_adapter.rb does, and jere are the results, just in case that could help:
postgresql_adapter.rb (line 251):
query('SHOW standard_conforming_strings')[0][0] => 'off'
postgresql_adapter.rb (line 605):
query('SHOW client_min_messages')[0][0] => 'notice'