Re: error while trying to change the database encoding on a database

From: Geoffrey Myers <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: error while trying to change the database encoding on a database
Date: 2011-01-24 15:57:52
Message-ID: 4D3DA180.5080401@serioustechnology.com
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Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2011 6:38:55 am Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> We need to change the database encoding on our databases as they were
>> created with the wrong encoding. They were created as SQL_ASCII and we
>> are changing them to UTF8.
>>
>> When testing this Friday, I received the following error:
>>
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 5225; 0 16990 TABLE
>> DATA cust postgres
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence
>> for encoding "UTF8": 0xb0
>> 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".
>> CONTEXT: COPY cust, line 778
> ^^^^^^^ In the COPY command for that table.

I picked up ont that, but the dump is binary, thus I can not view the
actual code.

>
>> Is there any easy way to figure out which record caused this error?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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>
>

--
Until later, Geoffrey

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