Thread: 8.1: import of 8.0 dump fails with UTF-8 error

8.1: import of 8.0 dump fails with UTF-8 error

From
Thomas Mueller
Date:
Hello,

I did a pg_dumpall of all my Pg 8.0.3 databases, removed 8.0, installed
8.1 and tried to import the dump. One table in one database failed with:

ERROR:  invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0x83
CONTEXT:  COPY pwd_name, line 22428, column name: "t.tonnement"

So I exported that database with 8.0 as Inserts to a text file and tried
to fix it using iconv, but that fails as well:

# iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 dump.sql > dump-fixed.sql
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 2588882

How can I fix the sql script to import it?
I have Debian Linux 3.1.


Thanks a lot,
Thomas

Re: 8.1: import of 8.0 dump fails with UTF-8 error

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did a pg_dumpall of all my Pg 8.0.3 databases, removed 8.0, installed
> 8.1 and tried to import the dump. One table in one database failed with:
>
> ERROR:  invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0x83
> CONTEXT:  COPY pwd_name, line 22428, column name: "t.tonnement"
>
> So I exported that database with 8.0 as Inserts to a text file and tried
> to fix it using iconv, but that fails as well:
>
> # iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 dump.sql > dump-fixed.sql
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 2588882
>
> How can I fix the sql script to import it?
> I have Debian Linux 3.1.

We have updated the 8.1.0 release notes to mention a fix:

       Some users are having problems loading UTF-8 data into 8.1.X.
       This is because previous versions allowed invalid UTF-8 byte
       sequences to be entered into the database, and this release
       properly accepts only valid UTF-8 sequences. One way to correct a
       dumpfile is to run the command <command>iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t
       UTF-8 -o cleanfile.sql dumpfile.sql</>. The <literal>-c</> option
       removes invalid character sequences. A diff of the two files will
       show the sequences that are invalid. <command>iconv</> reads the
       entire input file into memory so it might be necessary to use
       <application>split</> to break up the dump into multiple smaller
       files for processing.

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