"Ronald Vyhmeister" <rvyhmeister(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The DB is storing it UTF8, but it is really 8859-1... I need to force PG to
> think that it's 8859-1 in spite of what it thinks it may be...
Dump the database, change the "set client_encoding" command in the
resulting file, reload.
regards, tom lane