Re: utf8 errors

On 26 June 2013 12:39, Jiří Pavlovský <jiri@pavlovsky.eu> wrote:

On 26.6.2013 12:19, Alban Hertroys wrote:

On 26 June 2013 11:17, Jiří Pavlovský <jiri@pavlovsky.eu> wrote:

On 26.6.2013 10:58, Albe Laurenz wrote:

> Jirí Pavlovský wrote:
>> I have a win32 application.
>>  LOG:  statement: INSERT INTO recipients (DealID,
>> Contactid)                               VALUES (29009, 9387)
>>  ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x9c
>>
>>
>> But the query is clean ascii and it doesn't even contain the mentioned
>> character.

Can you show a \d+ of the recipients table? I suspect there is a trigger attached to inserts on the table or some other side-effect that's causing the issue.

Here you go. But I don't think that is the cause. I'm getting these errors on tables as well. Actually when I copy and paste the offending queries from log into pgAdmin it runs without an error.

I suppose that contacts.contactid and subscription.dealid are integers as well and not, for example, text fields?

 
So the queries work from pgadmin; what application/environment are they NOT working in? Something is obviously different. You say it's a Win32 application, what database libraries and programming languages are involved?

Does the application perhaps send trailing garbage after the query or something similar? Something like that might happen if there's a memory allocation bug in the application.
I'm assuming here that, if the query string cannot be converted from utf-8 due to garbage characters, the transcoding error triggers before the query parser notices a syntax error.