"V S P" <toreason@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What does this LOG string mean, and what should I do? That's supposed to be a can't-happen case. How did you provoke it exactly? (No, you didn't provide enough detail for someone else to reproduce it...) Are you by any chance using database encoding mule_internal? That's the only case I'm aware of where I'd expect setting client_encoding to utf8 to fail. 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