I’ve been anxiously waiting for that reply but got nothing. I even mailed the mailing list manager again with no reply. And when I click on that link I get a server error: "An internal server error occurred.”
But thanks, this helps me focus on the problem. > On 9 Feb 2017, at 20:15, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Rui Pacheco <rui.pach...@gmail.com> writes: >> I’ve sent a similar email to the general mailing list but got no reply. > > Uh, multiple people answered you, see > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/22DB2E08-6329-4EF8-B3E5-C0A7728A067B%40gmail.com > >> Is there a way to see how Postgres parses the message? I’ve set logging to >> DEBUG5 but the only thing I can see in the logs is, among other things, the >> message > >> ERROR: invalid string in message >> FATAL: invalid frontend message type 63 > > That seems to comport with the theory I suggested before, that you were > sending an incorrect message length word --- although this additional > evidence indicates that the sent length is too short, not too long > which is what I'd been thinking. Or possibly you left out required > field(s) of the message. Anyway it's expecting a null-terminated string > and not finding one in the remaining message data. > > regards, tom lane