On Tue, 26 Apr 2022, Adrian Klaver wrote:
I'm guessing some sort of hidden character.
Adrian, Oh, ... forgot to mention in my response that the MWE values were added to the template in emacs while I get the same error using psql -d <database> -f <filename> in a v.t. or entering 'insert into people values (...)' within the psql shell. All throw the same error. Rich