Andres Freund wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:36:57 Jasen Betts wrote:
> > if you do an ascii dump and the dump starts out "SET CLIENT ENCODING
> > 'UTF8'" or similar but you still get errors.
> Do you mean that a dump from SQL_ASCII can yield non-utf8 data? right. But
> According to the OP his 8.3 database is UTF8...
> So there should not be invalid data in there.
I haven't followed this thread, but older PG versions had less strict
checks on UTF8 data, which meant that some invalid data could creep in.
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