Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a databse in postgresql 7.4 with some pdf files in a bytea column.
> everything works fine but sometimes when i dump and restore i get > psql:../tmp/dump.sql:704022: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea > CONTEXT: COPY dk_dokument, line 127, column dk_content: > "%PDF-1.4\015%\342\343\317\323\015\01220 0 obj\015<< \015/Linearized 1 > \015/O 22 \015/H [ 660 209 ] \..." You might look into whether your handling of the dump file is perfectly clean --- is there any possibility of newline transformations getting applied to it, for example? AFAICS the above cannot happen if the identical data dumped out by pg_dump is reloaded. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster