Re: not valid character for Unicode - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adam Witney
Subject Re: not valid character for Unicode
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Msg-id 44899517.4080406@sgul.ac.uk
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In response to Re: not valid character for Unicode  ("A.M." <agentm@themactionfaction.com>)
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> For migration, you should pg_dump- it's not clear from your email whether
> you are doing that. If you typed up some sql in Windows which you want to
> load into postgres, you might try:
> set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';
> at the top of your script.

yes this was how i spotted the problem. If i pg_dump from 7.4 and then
try to load into 8.1 these characters cause errors.

This data was generated on windows though as you say

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