From: Randall Wilson <rwilson@earthcomber.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Idle Error invalid byte sequence
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:10:24 -0500
Message-ID: <48D2B5B0.9020708@earthcomber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23674.1221761835@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <48D273D8.7010603@earthcomber.com>
<23674.1221761835@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Yes, the encoding was changed from SQL_ASCII to UTF-8. Does the fact
that it's an "Idle" error conform your theory that some client is
causing the error? I thought the "Idle" error was caused by errors found
during background processes, like vacuums.
I made a plain text backup of the live database and I'm not having any
luck grepping for the character. I may be doing it wrong. If I can't
find it in the database dump, what does that tell us? Is it possibly in
a template database.
Thanks for your help,
Randy
Tom Lane wrote:
> Randall Wilson <rwilson@earthcomber.com> writes:
>
>> We've got a PostgreSQL 8.1.11 database that started displaying these
>> error messages almost immediately AFTER it was restored.
>> ...
>> Is there any way to figure out where the 0x8b character is?
>>
>
> Hmm, did you perhaps change the database encoding from its previous
> value? The most likely bet is that the bad encoding is arriving from a
> client, which is evidently expecting to send something other than UTF8
> but not bothering to set client_encoding to tell what.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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