PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes: > Getting the below error while inserting records into the table: > invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xae
That is, in fact, an invalidly-encoded character per UTF8 rules, so I see no reason to think there is any Postgres bug here. What's more likely is that you haven't set client_encoding to match the encoding of the data you're trying to insert.
