Re: COPY and Unicode...

Thanks a lot! Your help was very handy!

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

"Cristian Prieto" <cristian(at)clickdiario(dot)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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