Re: "Invalid byte sequence" message

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 21:41, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>wrote:

> Le 22/02/2011 21:58, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
> > Le 16/02/2011 14:21, Maximilian Tyrtania a écrit :
> >> Just found this in my log file:
> >>
> >> <postgres%2011-02-16 13:55:32 CET22021>ERROR: invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8": 0xe3bc64
> >> <postgres%2011-02-16 13:55:32 CET22021>STATEMENT: SELECT
> pg_file_read('pg_log/postgresql-2011-02-16_000000.log', 100000, 50000)
> >>
> >> Still not sure what's going on there. Apparently the contents of the
> logfile are not valid UTF8 characters. Also, after i clicked the message
> boxes away, the log files contents appear incomplete in the log viewer (a
> couple hours worth of entries are simply missing).
> >>
> >
> > I suppose it stopped to process the rest of the file once it found an
> > invalid UTF8 character. There's not much we can do about this.
> >
> >
>
> One guy on a french web forum has the same issue than you. Can you tell
> me the value of your lc_messages parameter?
>

I get it quite easily with LC_MESSAGES = 'French, France' (the installer's
default) on a French Windows.

See this unresolved thread for more info:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-09/msg00138.php