From a1bc728cf92c0df4477d80ff845c6e81d2ccf501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:04:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a HINT about the likely reason for 'invalid multibyte
character for locale' failure.
---
src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c
index 11649de0de..f153ccd4a5 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c,v 1.55 2004/08/29 05:06:49 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c,v 1.56 2004/10/19 15:04:17 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ texttowcs(const text *txt)
pg_verifymbstr(workstr, nbytes, false);
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_CHARACTER_NOT_IN_REPERTOIRE),
- errmsg("invalid multibyte character for locale")));
+ errmsg("invalid multibyte character for locale"),
+ errhint("The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the database encoding.")));
}
Assert(ncodes <= (size_t) nbytes);