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Create group fails

See original GitHub issue

Context

Versions:

cartodb: 4.33.0 Postgres 12 PostGIS 3 cartodb-postgresql 0.35

When trying to create a group an exception is thrown with the follow error:

{"error": {
"spiexceptions.ExternalRoutineException: spiexceptions.ExternalRoutineException: spiexceptions.ExternalRoutineException: TypeError: expected bytes-like object, not str"} }

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Steps to Reproduce

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Test via rails console

irb(main):005:0>  group = @organization.create_group(display_name)
[pool] Creating a new connection for localhost:cartodb_user_e6d6f832-7528-4261-96f6-a28e4f78dd8a_db:5432:cartodb_user_e6d6f832-7528-4261-96f6-a28e4f78dd8a:ar (1)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::ExternalRoutineException: ERROR:  spiexceptions.ExternalRoutineException: spiexceptions.ExternalRoutineException: spiexceptions.ExternalRoutineException: TypeError: expected bytes-like object, not str
CONTEXT:  Traceback (most recent call last):
  PL/Python function "_cdb_group_creategroup_api", line 7, in <module>
    plpy.execute(query)
PL/Python function "_cdb_group_creategroup_api"
SQL statement "SELECT cartodb._CDB_Group_CreateGroup_API(group_name, group_role)"
PL/pgSQL function cdb_group_creategroup(text) line 7 at PERFORM
:  select cartodb.CDB_Group_CreateGroup('thedudes')
	from /var/lib/gems/2.4.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.11/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/database_statements.rb:155:in `async_exec'