Joe Conway <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I forget the specifics, but I have seen issues before if the terminal > encoding and client encoding don't match. Could it be something like that? Theoretically, if the example is all-ASCII, that shouldn't matter. But for sure there is something weird happening. One idea for investigation is to set log_statement = 'all' and then see how the troublesome command shows up in the postmaster log. regards, tom lane