Janning Vygen <vygen@gmx.de> 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