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 wrote: > Randall Wilson <rwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 vacuums. >> > > You'd have to tell us what your log_line_prefix is before we could > interpret that, but yeah, an encoding error in an incoming query string > would be reported before the backend could even consider going non-idle. > > A SQL_ASCII database would have accepted any data whatsoever. If you > want to change to something where you actually know the encoding, that's > fine, but realize that you're going to have to make your clients be > honest about what encoding they're using, too. > > regards, tom lane > >
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