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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_restore failes - invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xa3
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Msg-id 3528.1153149407@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_restore failes - invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xa3  (ofuerst@tsak.net)
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ofuerst@tsak.net writes:
> As I wrote in my initial posting: source and target encoding is UNICODE. I can
> restore mentioned backups without a problem on a Windows host. And every backup
> I take is not restore-able on it's original host...

Indeed, 8.0.8 is stricter about encoding than prior versions, and 0xA3
is *not* a valid UTF8 character.  Perhaps your data is really Latin1 or
some such?

            regards, tom lane

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