Add a HINT about the likely reason for 'invalid multibyte character for locale' failure.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c
index 11649de0debbe20339857ee6882efcccde145717..f153ccd4a5e25e60b68a01926e4d4430000f6229 100644 (file)
--- 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);