Re: Invalid byte sequence when importing Oracle BLOB

From: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Invalid byte sequence when importing Oracle BLOB
Date: 2021-04-26 12:32:59
Message-ID: 20210426123259.GB26434@hjp.at
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On 2021-04-26 06:49:18 -0500, Ron wrote:
> The destination is an (RDS) Postgresql 12.5 with encoding UTF8, and is being
> loaded through COPY commands generated by ora2pg.
>
> The source table has a BLOB column (I think they are scanned images) which
> I'm loading into a Postgresql bytea column.
>
> Seven times out of about 60M rows, I get this error:
> Psql:909242: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xed 0xaf 0xbf

Decoding UTF8 doesn't make sense for a bytea column. How does that data
look like in the file generated by ora2pg?

hp

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