Re: error while trying to change the database encoding on a database

On Monday 24 January 2011 6:38:55 am Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> We need to change the database encoding on our databases as they were
> created with the wrong encoding. They were created as SQL_ASCII and we
> are changing them to UTF8.
>
> When testing this Friday, I received the following error:
>
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 5225; 0 16990 TABLE
> DATA cust postgres
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence
> for encoding "UTF8": 0xb0
> HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match
> the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
> "client_encoding".
> CONTEXT: COPY cust, line 778
^^^^^^^ In the COPY command for that table.

>
> Is there any easy way to figure out which record caused this error?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey

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Adrian Klaver
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