Hi All: I'm continually getting into a loop of receiving messages like this in my PostgreSQL log files: 2009-06-19 09:17:36.465 EDT 5846 syslog@syslog: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa8 2009-06-19 09:17:36.465 EDT 5846 syslog@syslog: HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding". 2009-08-01 00:00:05.216 EDT 3986 syslog@syslog: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc446 2009-08-01 00:00:05.216 EDT 3986 syslog@syslog: HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding". I'm using a centralized logging system, and just turned on logging to syslog for our hardware firewall. I'm positive it was this change that is resulting in this behavior, but I really do want to continue pulling this data from the firewall. It appears that random messages from the firewall will come in as invalid UTF8, and somehow get stuck in a loop with syslog-ng continually trying to insert the offending line and PostgreSQL continually refusing. I have several log files that are > 500MB now because of this. Is there a way to force syslog-ng to drop these messages, and perhaps log the error? I am using PostgreSQL 8.3.6. syslog-ng --version syslog-ng 3.0.3 Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit//var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.0#master#08c9bf9d98e4e021756adc12c42605840140ba8b Compile-Date: Jul 8 2009 12:16:03 Enable-Threads: on Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off Enable-Sun-Door: off Enable-IPv6: off Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on Enable-SSL: on Enable-SQL: on Enable-Linux-Caps: on Enable-Pcre: on syslog-ng.conf: options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); stats_level(2); stats_freq(43200); frac_digits(5); ts_format(iso); }; source src { unix-stream( "/dev/log" max-connections(40) ); internal(); udp(port(514)); tcp(port(5140) keep-alive(yes)); }; destination d_sql { sql( type(pgsql) host("10.233.93.18") username("syslog") password("*****") database("syslog") table("facility_$FACILITY") columns("host", "sourceip", "priority", "lvl", "tag", "rcvd", "sent", "program", "msg") values("$HOST", "$SOURCEIP", "$PRIORITY", "$LEVEL", "$TAG", "$R_ISODATE", "$S_ISODATE", "$PROGRAM", "$MSGONLY") indexes("host", "rcvd", "sent", "program", "msg") ); }; destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); }; destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; log { source(src); #destination(messages); destination(console_all); destination(d_sql); };