Graham Murray <gmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since upgrading test systems to postgresql 9.1, I am seeing some inserts > to bytea fields giving errors such as "ERROR: invalid byte sequence for > encoding "UTF8": 0xf9" Where the insert is from a C program using libpq > and is of the form "insert into xxx values(E'%s')" where the value is > the return of PQescapeByteaConn(); That is incorrect coding. The result of PQescapeByteaConn has never been meant to be put into an E'' literal. You might have managed to get away with it so long as standard_conforming_strings was off in the server, but it's on by default in 9.1. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general