Thanks Tom, I replaced the file conversion_create.sql and the db got created. In the mean while I got into a different problem, I guess this is also a settings related problem. When I try to connect to the DB and perform insert/update/delete/select operations from the command line all seems to be working fine, but when I try to use my application to connect to the DB I get the following message in the log file and the connection aborts. LOG: getsockname() failed: Invalid argument LOG: incomplete startup packet Can you please help me fix the problem. Thanks once again for your help. Regards Rajaram J We all make mistakes, but it's our responses to said mistakes that separate true leaders from the rest of the pack. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:13 PM To: Jayaraman, Rajaram (STSD) Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: FATAL error "could not find function "alt_to_mic" in file cyrillic_and_mic.so "Jayaraman, Rajaram (STSD)" <rajaram.j@xxxxxx> writes: > I have compiled PostgreSQL version 8.4.1 on HPUX 11iV3 (HPUX 11.31) on a ia64 hp server BL870c. When I try to start the database it creates the data directory and while initializing it gets till creating conversions and then throws a FATAL error "could not find function "alt_to_mic" in file "/opt/psb/db/pgsql/lib/cyrillic_and_mic.so" ". Well, the error is perfectly legitimate, because there is no such function in that file, nor anywhere else in Postgres 8.4. It did exist back in 8.0 or so, which makes me think initdb is reading some ancient copy of conversion_create.sql. You need to straighten out the apparent mixup of files from different releases. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general