From: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Unable to restore dump due to client encoding issues -- or, when is SQL_ASCII really UTF8 |
Date: | 2007-02-27 13:43:27 |
Message-ID: | 20070227084327.427868d5.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com |
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I'm probably missing something painfully obvious here, but it's not
obvious to me ...
I've pulled a dump of a production database to put it in our lab for
various types of testing ... I'm glad I did, as this testing is telling
me we'll have issues if we try to upgrade.
First off, it's my understanding that with SQL_ASCII "encoding", that
PostgreSQL does no checking for valid/invalid characters, per the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/multibyte.html
The beginning of the dump file I am restoring has the following:
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--
SET client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';
[...]
But when I try to pull the dump in with psql, I get the following errors:
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa0
HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding".
Connecting to the database and issuing "show client_encoding" shows that
the database is indeed set to SQL_ASCII.
Now ... I'm expecting the server to accept any byte sequence, since we're
using SQL_ANSII, but that is (obviously) not the case. Am I missing
something obvious here? Grepping the entire dump file shows absolutely
no references to UTF8 ... so why is the server trying to validate the
byte string as UTF8?
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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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