On 12/13/07, robert <robertlazarski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to hack my inserts script from mssql to work with postgres
> 8.1.9 - I can upgrade if need be. I'm getting this error:
>
> psql -h localhost atdev < fuk2.sql
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe1204f
> HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match
> the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
> "client_encoding".
The cleanest way to fix this is to figure out what encoding the data
in your SQL script is (since I am assuming parts of it were dumped
directly out of MSSQL) and set client_encoding to that. Your data is
almost certainly not straight 7-bit ASCII.
-Doug
