> 1) Is this a data perversion problem (=wrong UTF-8 sequences entered)? Then,
> how can I fix it?
Why don't you edit the output from pg_dump? It's just a text file.
> Why did 7.1.3 allow the input of such data?
It's just becuase no data validation checking was there before 7.2.
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Tatsuo Ishii