-- -- Unicode handling -- CREATE TABLE unicode_test ( testvalue text NOT NULL ); CREATE FUNCTION unicode_return() RETURNS text AS E' return u"\\x80" ' LANGUAGE plpythonu; CREATE FUNCTION unicode_trigger() RETURNS trigger AS E' TD["new"]["testvalue"] = u"\\x80" return "MODIFY" ' LANGUAGE plpythonu; CREATE TRIGGER unicode_test_bi BEFORE INSERT ON unicode_test FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE unicode_trigger(); CREATE FUNCTION unicode_plan1() RETURNS text AS E' plan = plpy.prepare("SELECT $1 AS testvalue", ["text"]) rv = plpy.execute(plan, [u"\\x80"], 1) return rv[0]["testvalue"] ' LANGUAGE plpythonu; CREATE FUNCTION unicode_plan2() RETURNS text AS E' plan = plpy.prepare("SELECT $1 || $2 AS testvalue", ["text", u"text"]) rv = plpy.execute(plan, ["foo", "bar"], 1) return rv[0]["testvalue"] ' LANGUAGE plpythonu; SELECT unicode_return(); ERROR: PL/Python: could not convert Python Unicode object to PostgreSQL server encoding DETAIL: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x80' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) CONTEXT: while creating return value PL/Python function "unicode_return" INSERT INTO unicode_test (testvalue) VALUES ('test'); ERROR: PL/Python: could not convert Python Unicode object to PostgreSQL server encoding DETAIL: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x80' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) CONTEXT: while modifying trigger row PL/Python function "unicode_trigger" SELECT * FROM unicode_test; testvalue ----------- (0 rows) SELECT unicode_plan1(); WARNING: PL/Python: plpy.Error: unrecognized error in PLy_spi_execute_plan CONTEXT: PL/Python function "unicode_plan1" ERROR: PL/Python: could not convert Python Unicode object to PostgreSQL server encoding DETAIL: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x80' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) CONTEXT: PL/Python function "unicode_plan1" SELECT unicode_plan2(); unicode_plan2 --------------- foobar (1 row)