I am running into this issue as well. I am upgrading from 7.4.X to 8.1.4. My databases were "ASCII" encoded in 7.4.X
I am editing the dumps to remove the non-UTF8 characters, but you could also create your new db with "ASCII" encoding and it should import fine.
Hope this helps,
Woody
IGLASS Networks
I am attempting to restore a database.
When I run pg_restore I get the following error:
Pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error returened by PQendcopy: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding “UTF8” : 0x92
The dump was generated on a Mac and I am doing a restore on a Fedora Core 4 box.
The dump was done using a tar format.
The restore command I used is a follows:
pg_restore –d bugs –U bugs –Ft bugs-backup
I am running version 8.1.4.
The output of psql –U bugs –c ‘show client_encoding’ is
UTF8
Local give items like
LANG=:en_US, UTF-8”
LC_COLLATE=”en_US, UTF-8”
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tom Kinard