Hello!
We experienced the exact same problems. You may solve the problem by feeding the dump through iconv. See my earlier message on this issue
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00799.php
On top of that you'd be well advised to try dumping using pg_dump of postgresql 8.1.
Kind regards
Markus
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Von: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org im Auftrag von Benjamin Smith
Gesendet: Di 11/29/2005 01:22
An: Postgres General
Betreff: [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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