Hi, I've a problem with a database, I can dump the database to a file, but restoration fails, happens with 8.1.4.
Steps to reproduce: create database testdb with encoding='UTF8'; \c testdb create table test(x text); insert into test values ('\244'); ==> Is akzepted, even if not UTF8. pg_dump testdb -f testdb.dump -Fc pg_restore -f testdb.dump -d testdb => fails with an error: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa4 The problem itself comes from a CSV file, which is imported with \copy without proper quoting (so I have to fix this anyway), but I still think this is an error, making restoration very complicated in such cases... Or am I doing something completly wrong here? Best regards, Mario Weilguni ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match