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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-08-22 03:30:20 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-08-22 03:30:20 +0000
commite11cab650c45f40b6f8a6b1874d149ca69b6cdc6 (patch)
treee5c5e5768a92672647697dfaafc59d825eb89ac4 /src
parentdaebd5257c76f00beff4325e19056923139deafd (diff)
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Add hint for "invalid byte sequence for encoding" error message,
suggesting review of client_encoding.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c b/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c
index 0cd1d313109..0a8d70fe8f4 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* conversion functions between pg_wchar and multibyte streams.
* Tatsuo Ishii
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c,v 1.55 2006/05/21 20:05:19 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c,v 1.56 2006/08/22 03:30:20 momjian Exp $
*
* WIN1250 client encoding updated by Pavel Behal
*
@@ -1486,7 +1486,10 @@ report_invalid_encoding(int encoding, const char *mbstr, int len)
(errcode(ERRCODE_CHARACTER_NOT_IN_REPERTOIRE),
errmsg("invalid byte sequence for encoding \"%s\": 0x%s",
pg_enc2name_tbl[encoding].name,
- buf)));
+ buf),
+ errhint("This failure can also happen if the byte sequence does not "
+ "match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled "
+ "by \"client_encoding\".")));
}
/*