Re: [ADMIN] syntax error for no apparent reason

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] syntax error for no apparent reason
Date: 2010-12-04 12:46:15
Message-ID: 4CFA3817.2020400@lelarge.info
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Le 04/12/2010 02:45, Josh Berkus a écrit :
>
>> I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear
>> reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file.
>> I think that there must be some strange character code at the first
>> position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows
>> installation on my laptop and move files around.
>
> Yeah, this is caused by pgadmin adding a unicode marker at the first
> position of the file. If you uncheck "Read and Write Unicode UTF-8
> Files" in the preferences, this issue should go away.
>

It goes away because the file is no longer in UTF-8, and that may not be
what the OP wants.

I have a patch ready to be commited that will handle this. But you will
need next pgAdmin's release.

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Guillaume
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