I have this issue:

postgres=# select E'\xc5\x53\x94\x96\x83\x29';
ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc553
HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding".
postgres=# show client_encoding ;
 client_encoding
-----------------
 UTF8
(1 row)

postgres=# show server_encoding ;
 server_encoding
-----------------
 UTF8
(1 row)

postgres=# select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.3.5 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
(1 row)




On postgres 8.2 this worked:

postgres=# select version();
version
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
(1 row)

postgres=# select E'\xc5\x53\x94\x96\x83\x29';
 ?column?
----------
 S)
(1 row)

postgres=# show client_encoding ;
 client_encoding
-----------------
 UTF8
(1 row)

postgres=# show server_encoding ;
 server_encoding
-----------------
 UTF8
(1 row)


I'm using the above mentioned string to store data into bytea column. I did pg_dump of the database on postgres 8.2, and then tried to restore it on postgres 8.3, and I got this error. The actuall line that produces error is like this:

INSERT INTO vpn_payins_bitfield (vpn_id, payload_pattern, encription, encription_key, charset, amount_width, shop_width, counter_width) VALUES (3, E'\\W*(\\w+)(?:\\W+(.*))?', 'RC4', E'\xc5\x53\x94\x96\x83\x29'::bytea, 'ABCDEGHIKLMOPTWX', 16, 8, 16);

The error is:
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc553


Now, I see that I can type: "SELECT E'\xFF'" in pg8.2, but can't do that in pg8.3.

So, my question is, how do I specify hexadecimal value of C5 to be stored in bytea column, in an INSERT statement?

        Mike

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