Re: Change server encoding after the fact

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Cody Caughlan <toolbag(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Please see below.
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Cody Caughlan <toolbag(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > That worked, but "file" shows no difference:
>> > $ iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -c foo.sql > utf.sql
>> > $ file -i foo.sql
>> > foo.sql: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> > $file -i utf.sql
>> > utf.sql: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> > So iconv didnt actually convert the file OR does is the "file" command
>> > just
>> > ignorant?
>>
>> Not sure.  try loading the dump into the UTF-8 DB in postgres and see
>> what happens I guess?
>
>
> Uh oh.
> On the remote machine:
> $ pg_dump -Fc -E UTF8 foo > foo.sql
> Then I've created a new local DB with UTF8 encoding and I try to restore
> this dump into it:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 2342; 0 17086 TABLE DATA
> wine_books vinosmith
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed for table "wine_books": ERROR:
>  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc309
> CONTEXT:  COPY wine_books, line 1147
> WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 1
> And sure enough the table "wine_books" is empty. Not good.

You may have to hunt down that one bad line (1147) and chop it out /
edit it so it works.