clsql problems with postgresql

Hello!

before I begin, I should say that I cannot answer email from Monday
until Thursday as I work in another city without Internet access on
these days.


I am new to this list and to CLSQL, so I hope that I am on topic.

I'm using Arch Linux x86_64 with sbcl-1.0.31.

I have two problems.  After getting CLSQL to connect to my postgresql
database under Arch Linux, there came an upgrade for postgresql to
version 8.4.1, whereupon CLSQL failed to connect.  So, can it be that
CLSQL requires upgrading for this version, and, if so, can anybody point
me to a patch?

The second problem I think concerns character coding.  At least I could
get a response to my SQL queries _provided_ there were no German
national characters involved in the output.  This remains true if I use
an SQLite database instead of a PostgreSQL one.  At least, that seems to
me to be the common cause.  I use iso-5589-15 character encoding both
for my Linux environment and for the postgreSQL database.  Could it be
that CLSQL insists on UTF8 encoding?  Can this be altered?

Finally, both these problems have one aspect in common.  I get no error
message; I am not thrown into the lisp debugger; the REPL is simply
killed without comment!  That strikes me as being extreme!

I would be very grateful for any help on these topics.

Thanks in advance,
Mike Dowling

-- 
Dr. Michael L. Dowling
Gaußstr. 27
38106 Braunschweig
Germany