> I have a database that was created with SQL-ASCII encoding > (unfortunately). I ran pg_restore to load the struct and data into a > new database with UTF-8 encoding but no surprise- I'm seeing this > error for a number of tables: > > pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte > sequence for encod > ing "UTF8" > > Any idea on how I can copy the data between these databases without > any data loss? For some reason I thought that a conversion to Unicode > would be easy.
Conversion to Unicode is easy if you know the encoding of your data and that is consistent :^) Try to figure out the encoding of your data. Then dump in text format and change the "SET client_encoding" line in the dump accordingly. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
