[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am using tsearch2 with pgsql 8.2.5 and get the following error when
> calling to_tsvector :
> "translation failed from server encoding to wchar_t"

> My database is UTF8 encoded and the data sent to to_tsvector comes
> from a bytea column converted to text with
> encode(COLUMN, 'escape').

Two likely theories:

1. Your database encoding is UTF-8, but your locale (LC_CTYPE) assumes
some other encoding.

2. The encode() is yielding something that isn't valid UTF-8.

PG 8.3 contains checks that should complain about both of these
scenarios, but IIRC 8.2 does not.

                        regards, tom lane

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