Re: evil characters #bfef cause dump failure

From: Christian Fowler <spider(at)viovio(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christian Fowler <spider(at)viovio(dot)com>, pgsql-admin list <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: evil characters #bfef cause dump failure
Date: 2004-11-15 20:29:38
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0411151527550.12980@leda.steelsun.com
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PGCLIENTENCODING=UNICODE
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Christian Fowler <spider(at)viovio(dot)com> writes:
>> After much wrestling, it appears the hex byte sequence #bfef in a VARCHAR
>> column causes a truncated COPY line to be written (and thus the *entire*
>> COPY block fails).
>
> What database encoding and locale are you using?
>
> regards, tom lane
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