Re: Converting from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Converting from SQL_ASCII to UTF8
Date
Msg-id 19840.1196374458@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Converting from SQL_ASCII to UTF8  ("Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan@gmail.com>)
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"Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan@gmail.com> writes:
> I have some UTF-8 data in my databases, and it's causing dump/restore
> to fail. Specifically, I'm seeing messages like:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence
> for encoding "UTF8": 0xe14c65

This is, in fact, not UTF8, no matter how much you'd like to think so.
It might possibly be LATIN1 or some other single-byte encoding.  What
you're going to need to do is figure out what you really have and
convert it all to a common encoding.

One of the disadvantages of SQL_ASCII mode is that it will let you wind
up with a mishmash of different encodings in your DB :-(

            regards, tom lane

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