Thread: COPY and Unicode...

Hello, I need to import some amount of data using the COPY command, the main
trouble I found is that the Database is in UNICODE format and the data in
ASCII Latin-1 codepage, when I try to import it, COPY respond with:

ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9
CONTEXT:  COPY geoip_location, line 307, column city: "Yaound"

I've been looking into the documentation and I could not found any reference
in copy from a distinct codepage than the used by the database, any help?

Thanks a lot!

"Cristian Prieto" <cristian@clickdiario.com> writes:

> Hello, I need to import some amount of data using the COPY command, the main
> trouble I found is that the Database is in UNICODE format and the data in
> ASCII Latin-1 codepage, when I try to import it, COPY respond with:
>
> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9
> CONTEXT:  COPY geoip_location, line 307, column city: "Yaound"
>
> I've been looking into the documentation and I could not found any reference
> in copy from a distinct codepage than the used by the database, any help?

Are you setting the client_encoding variable before doing the COPY?

-Doug

"Cristian Prieto" <cristian@clickdiario.com> writes:
> Hello, I need to import some amount of data using the COPY command, the main
> trouble I found is that the Database is in UNICODE format and the data in
> ASCII Latin-1 codepage, when I try to import it, COPY respond with:

> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9
> CONTEXT:  COPY geoip_location, line 307, column city: "Yaound"

> I've been looking into the documentation and I could not found any reference
> in copy from a distinct codepage than the used by the database, any help?

Try doing "SET client_encoding = latin1" before doing the COPY.

            regards, tom lane

Thanks a lot! Your help was very handy!

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Douglas McNaught
Sent: Miércoles, 21 de Septiembre de 2005 02:39 p.m.
To: Cristian Prieto
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY and Unicode...

"Cristian Prieto" <cristian@clickdiario.com> writes:

> Hello, I need to import some amount of data using the COPY command, the
main
> trouble I found is that the Database is in UNICODE format and the data in
> ASCII Latin-1 codepage, when I try to import it, COPY respond with:
>
> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9
> CONTEXT:  COPY geoip_location, line 307, column city: "Yaound"
>
> I've been looking into the documentation and I could not found any
reference
> in copy from a distinct codepage than the used by the database, any help?

Are you setting the client_encoding variable before doing the COPY?

-Doug

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