Re: ODBC - Invalid protocol character

Cedar Cox <cedarc@visionforisrael.com> writes:
> When using the odbc driver from Access in Win9x we sometimes receive the
> error message "An invalid protocol character was received from the
> backend".  While this could mean that someone passed gas, I don't think
> so.  Anyone see this before?

That suggests that the frontend and backend got out of sync.  There used
to be some bugs that could cause that, but I thought we'd fixed 'em all.
What Postgres version are you running?

If you're on 7.0 or later, I'd definitely like to see a reproducible
test case...
        regards, tom lane