Garbage characters for \d table? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Bug summary: PSQL's \d table displaying garbage characters for one table.
Severity:  Annoyance
Reproducability: Poor
Version:  7.4.3 on the client, 7.4.1 on the server.  Both compiled from
source.
Platform: SuSE Linux 9.1, Linux Kernel 2.6.7 (client), RH Linux 8.0 on server.
    Connection btw. client <--> server is over SSH tunnel.

When I do a \d on one table in PSQL, I get the following:

                Table "public.elbs_timekeep"
      Column       |            Type             | Modifiers
-------------------+-----------------------------+-----------
 240240240240240240240240tkinit    | character varying(8)        |
 240240240240240240240240tksort    | integer                     |
 240240240240240240240240tklast    | character varying(20)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkfirst   | character varying(20)       |
 240240240240240240240240tktitle   | character varying(15)       |
 240240240240240240240240tktmdate  | timestamp without time zone |
 240240240240240240240240tkloc     | character varying(4)        |
 240240240240240240240240tkemdate  | timestamp without time zone |
 240240240240240240240240tkinitb   | character varying(8)        |
 240240240240240240240240tglmask   | character varying(64)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkblast   | character varying(20)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkbfirst  | character varying(20)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkstrate  | numeric                     |
 240240240240240240240240tkdept    | character varying(10)       |
 240240240240240240240240tksect    | character varying(10)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkschool  | character varying(20)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkgrdate  | timestamp without time zone |
 240240240240240240240240tkbrdate  | timestamp without time zone |
 240240240240240240240240tkstdcst  | numeric                     |
 240240240240240240240240tprotem   | character varying(7)        |
 240240240240240240240240tkeflag   | character varying(1)        |
 240240240240240240240240tkemail   | character varying(50)       |
 240240240240240240240240tkmoddate | timestamp without time zone |
 240240240240240240240240tkmodtime | character varying(8)        |
 240240240240240240240240tkmoduser | character varying(8)        |
 240240240240240240240240tkceflag  | character varying(1)        |

This does NOT happen:
1) on other tables;
2) when I use PSQL on the server.

Frankly, the circumstances are peculiar enough that I don't expect you to do
anything about this bug report; instead I'm filing it in case any related
problems crop up with 7.4's PSQL.

And, yes, I tried re-connecting in case this was somehow line noise.

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