you should use the 8.1 pg_dump not the 7.3 one.
Give it a try
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Benjamin Smith <lists@benjamindsmith.com>
To: Postgres General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:22:18 -0800
Subject: [GENERAL] Errors upgrading from 7.3 to 8.1
> Currently running Postgres 7.3.9 32bit on Fedora Core 1, and upgrading to PG
> 8.1 64bit on Centos 4.
>
> When I load the file,
> psql -U dbname < dbname.sql
>
> I get this error:
> ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0x96
> when inserting fields that seem to contain HTML. What could be causing this?
> My understanding is that pg_dump should properly escape things so that I'm
> not trying to dump/load things improperly.
>
> The dumps are made (on the PG 7.3 server)
> pg_dump -d -f $OUTPUT.pgsql $db
>
> Are being restore with (on the new 8.1 server)
> psql -U $db -e < $OUTPUT.pgsql
>
> -Ben
> --
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> - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978
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