Re: Migration error " invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff " from mysql 5.5 to postgresql 9.1

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Migration error " invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff " from mysql 5.5 to postgresql 9.1
Date: 2014-07-04 09:21:01
Message-ID: 53B671FD.2070402@hogranch.com
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On 7/4/2014 2:12 AM, sunpeng wrote:
> Thank you, friend, I use --hex-blob :
> mysqldump -v -nt --complete-insert=TRUE --compatible=postgresql
> --default-character-set=utf8 --skip-add-locks --compact
> --no-create-info --skip-quote-names --hex-blob -uroot -p test
> videorecresult >dbdata.sql
> to dump mysql data.
> And replace blob data "0x...." into "E'\\xx....'" to load data into
> postgresql.

regardless of all that, 0xFF is not a valid UTF8 character code. perhaps
you should store the data in a postgres BYTEA, or at least use character
encoding SQLASCII (which is to say, no encoding, bytes in == bytes out.)

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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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