Re: Database Restore errors

I am running into this issue as well. I am upgrading from 7.4.X to 8.1.4.
My databases were "ASCII" encoded in 7.4.X

I am editing the dumps to remove the non-UTF8 characters, but you could also
create your new db with "ASCII" encoding and it should import fine.

Hope this helps,

Woody
IGLASS Networks

_____

From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Kinard
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:50 AM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [GENERAL] Database Restore errors

I am attempting to restore a database.

When I run pg_restore I get the following error:

Pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error returened by PQendcopy: ERROR: invalid
byte sequence for encoding "UTF8" : 0x92

The dump was generated on a Mac and I am doing a restore on a Fedora Core 4
box.

The dump was done using a tar format.

The restore command I used is a follows:

pg_restore -d bugs -U bugs -Ft bugs-backup

I am running version 8.1.4.

The output of psql -U bugs -c 'show client_encoding' is

UTF8

Local give items like

LANG=:en_US, UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="en_US, UTF-8"

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Tom Kinard