From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Valentine Gogichashvili <valgog(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: confusing invalid UTF8 byte sequence error |
Date: | 2011-08-29 15:30:07 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaSU9crBcCeax9SsWQR_K+urYLFnNFd7yx9cUL6b=9gvA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Valentine Gogichashvili
<valgog(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Has anyone else ever found this error message confusing:
>> ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb24
>> I think what is really meant is better expressed like this:
>> ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdb 0x24
>> Otherwise it looks like a codepoint or a 16-bit word (endianness?) or
>> who knows what.
>
> Talking about this error, I find the lack of context in this error message
> more confusing... relative position or surrounding charachters would be
> really helpful, when searching for a problem with encoding...
+1. Twiddling with the exact wording of the error message doesn't
seem likely to make a huge difference in terms of usability, but
providing some more context would be *really* helpful.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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