[pg-devel] pg-connect ... "not of type BASE-CHAR"

[Nicholas Ivy]

I am using SBCL 0.8.21, a recent CVS snapshot of pg from 
common-lisp.net, and postgresql 7.4.7 on Mac OS 10.3.9.  When I call 
...

(pg-connect "dbname" "username" :password "password")

... an error results:

"Error The value #\(some unprintable character like Reverse-Linefeed) 
is not of type BASE-CHAR. [25-modlisp-worker]"

Is there something I should know about configuring pg for use with sbcl?

Nic

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CL-USER> (pg:pg-connect "database" "user" :password "password")

The value #\û is not of type BASE-CHAR.
    [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

Restarts:
   0: [ABORT] Abort handling SLIME request.
   1: [ATTEMPT-RESYNC] Attempt to resync the stream at a character 
boundary and continue.
   2: [FORCE-END-OF-FILE] Force an end of file.
   3: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

Backtrace:
   0: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD POSTGRESQL::READ-STRING-FROM-PACKET 
(POSTGRESQL::PG-PACKET INTEGER)) (#(NIL 3 2) . #()) #<unavailable 
argument> #<POSTGRESQL::PG-PACKET type: R length: 12 position: 4 
{40A5CC99}> 4)
       Locals:
         SB-DEBUG::ARG-0 = (#(NIL 3 2) . #())
         SB-DEBUG::ARG-1 = :<NOT-AVAILABLE>
         SB-DEBUG::ARG-2 = #<POSTGRESQL::PG-PACKET type: R length: 12 
position: 4 {40A5CC99}>
         SB-DEBUG::ARG-3 = 4