Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 17:48 +0530, Kiran K V wrote: >> I have a table with bytea column and trying to load the data using copy command. >> But Copy command is failing with >> "ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0x00. >> Why postgresql is failing to load when data contains 0x00. >> How to resolve this error ? any workaround to load the data with 0x00 values ? > This is not about loading data into a "bytea", but into a "text", "varchar" or > "char" column. Check again. I am guessing that the OP tried to put a literal NUL character into the COPY data. A bytea value in COPY data needs to be text-encoded as per one of the alternatives explained in the manual. Alternatively, you could jump through the hoops involved in sending binary COPY data. regards, tom lane
