Re: vacuumdb: ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character sequence found

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Marcello Perathoner <marcello(at)perathoner(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuumdb: ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character sequence found
Date: 2004-06-11 03:27:10
Message-ID: 18465.1086924430@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Marcello Perathoner <marcello(at)perathoner(dot)de> writes:
> I get this error when I try to analyze a column containing md5 hashes.
> The data type of the column is: bytea. The database encoding is UNICODE.
> Does anybody know a workaround for this?

> PostgreSQL 7.3.3 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96

Update to 7.4. 7.3 mistakenly assumed that it could use "text" as the
storage type for pg_statistic entries.

regards, tom lane

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