Thread: pg_restore error

Hi list;

We're seeing this error whern trying to restore a pg_dump file:

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pg_restore: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x9f CONTEXT:
COPY log_customer_api, line 4551 pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error returned
by PQendcopy: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x9f
CONTEXT:  COPY log_customer_api, line 4551 pg_restore: *** aborted because of
error
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Any thoughts?


Thx in advance

/Kevin

Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 18.06:23 schrieb Kevin Kempter:
> Hi list;
>
> We're seeing this error whern trying to restore a pg_dump file:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------------------ pg_restore: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8": 0x9f CONTEXT: COPY log_customer_api, line 4551 pg_restore:
> [archiver (db)] error returned by PQendcopy: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence
> for encoding "UTF8": 0x9f CONTEXT:  COPY log_customer_api, line 4551
> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------------------

I got similar messages for several reasons:
-Restore of data dump from an older server version on a newer one. The UTF8
handling was changed several times, where mostly the older servers did accept
worng byte codings which newer servers do not anymore.
-The server was created with an other encoding then the one which created the
dump.
-The dump was edited and with it some wrong encodings did enter.

If you could provide some more details what happened I might come up with some
more ideas.

Best regards
Ivo

>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Thx in advance
>
> /Kevin
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Which version are you trying to restore into? Which version did you dump from?

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