"Neil Conway" <neilconway@home.com> writes:
> I'm getting hundreds of errors in my Postgres (7.0.2) logs like this:
> ERROR: Conversion between UNICODE and SQL_ASCII is not supported
> Postgres is compiled without multi-byte support and the encoding on the
> database is SQL_ASCII. AFAIK, there is no need to store UNICODE (but I
> might be wrong -- if that's the problem, tell me).
> Since the database is accessed by hundreds of different clients
> (interfacing using JDBC, PHP4, Perl, and perhaps others), I'm having
> difficulty tracking down where these errors are coming from and why
> they're occuring.
Sounds to me like some of your clients *are* compiled with multibyte
support, and are asking for conversion to Unicode. I'm not an expert
on the multibyte stuff though...
regards, tom lane