Re: [ADMIN] Idle Error invalid byte sequence

2008-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
Randall Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > log_line_prefix = '[%t] %i' > So, "idle" is just the "command tag", which probably means it's not > associated with a command. No, you missed my point: if an incoming command contains invalidly encoded characters, the error about that will be thrown *be

Re: [ADMIN] Idle Error invalid byte sequence

2008-09-18 Thread Randall Wilson
log_line_prefix = '[%t] %i' So, "idle" is just the "command tag", which probably means it's not associated with a command. Unless you think grepping my plain text backup is a waste of time, you've answered all my questions (Thanks) and I don't need a reply. Thanks again, Randy Wilson Tom Lane wro

Re: [ADMIN] Idle Error invalid byte sequence

2008-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
Randall Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, the encoding was changed from SQL_ASCII to UTF-8. Does the fact > that it's an "Idle" error conform your theory that some client is > causing the error? I thought the "Idle" error was caused by errors found > during background processes, like vacuum

Re: [ADMIN] Idle Error invalid byte sequence

2008-09-18 Thread Randall Wilson
Yes, the encoding was changed from SQL_ASCII to UTF-8. Does the fact that it's an "Idle" error conform your theory that some client is causing the error? I thought the "Idle" error was caused by errors found during background processes, like vacuums. I made a plain text backup of the live database

Re: [ADMIN] Idle Error invalid byte sequence

2008-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
Randall Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've got a PostgreSQL 8.1.11 database that started displaying these > error messages almost immediately AFTER it was restored. > ... > Is there any way to figure out where the 0x8b character is? Hmm, did you perhaps change the database encoding from it

[ADMIN] Idle Error invalid byte sequence

2008-09-18 Thread Randall Wilson
Hi all, We've got a PostgreSQL 8.1.11 database that started displaying these error messages almost immediately AFTER it was restored. It restored fully and successfully. They occur every few seconds to every few minutes. Here are the error messages. [2008-09-18 10:18:14 CDT] idleERROR: invalid by