Re: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xf481 - how could this happen?

2012/4/14 Rural Hunter <ruralhunter(at)gmail(dot)com>

> My db is in utf-8, I have a row in my table say tmp_article and I wanted
> to generate ts_vector from the article content:
> select to_tsvector(content) from tmp_article;
> But I got this error:
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xf481
>
> I am wondering how this could happen. I think if there was invalid UTF8
> bytes in the content, it shouldn't have been able to inserted into the
> tmp_article table as I sometimes see similar errors when inserting records
> to tmp_article. Am I right?
>
>
This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the
encodingexpected by the server, which is controlled by
"client_encoding".
Try to set client_encoding='LATIN1'

and then execute

select to_tsvector(content) from tmp_article;

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Thanks & Regards,

Raghu Ram

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