michaelosthege commented on issue #12813:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/12813#issuecomment-821833783
We're getting the same error in Airflow 2.0.1 and it happens with xcom
produced by the `PythonOperator` too.
Tasks that try to `xcom_pull` upstream results that were created **before**
the 1.0.14 → 2.0.1 migration break (see below).
Pulling upstream XCom results that were created **after** the 2.0.1 upgrade
works just fine.
```
[2021-04-17 14:28:35,344] {taskinstance.py:1455} ERROR - 'utf-8' codec can't
decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/models/taskinstance.py", line
1112, in _run_raw_task
self._prepare_and_execute_task_with_callbacks(context, task)
File
"/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/models/taskinstance.py", line
1285, in _prepare_and_execute_task_with_callbacks
result = self._execute_task(context, task_copy)
File
"/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/models/taskinstance.py", line
1315, in _execute_task
result = task_copy.execute(context=context)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/operators/python.py",
line 117, in execute
return_value = self.execute_callable()
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/operators/python.py",
line 128, in execute_callable
return self.python_callable(*self.op_args, **self.op_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/airflow/dags/flow.py", line 91, in _run
upstream_result = task_instance.xcom_pull(task_ids=[taskid])[0]
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/utils/session.py",
line 65, in wrapper
return func(*args, session=session, **kwargs)
File
"/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/models/taskinstance.py", line
1960, in xcom_pull
for result in query.with_entities(XCom.task_id, XCom.value)
File
"/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/models/taskinstance.py", line
1960, in <dictcomp>
for result in query.with_entities(XCom.task_id, XCom.value)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/models/xcom.py", line
255, in deserialize_value
return json.loads(result.value.decode('UTF-8'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0:
invalid start byte
```
Interestingly the XCom data shows up just fine on the webserver:

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