Re: COPY and Unicode...

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: "Cristian Prieto" <cristian(at)clickdiario(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY and Unicode...
Date: 2005-09-21 20:38:48
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"Cristian Prieto" <cristian(at)clickdiario(dot)com> writes:

> Hello, I need to import some amount of data using the COPY command, the main
> trouble I found is that the Database is in UNICODE format and the data in
> ASCII Latin-1 codepage, when I try to import it, COPY respond with:
>
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9
> CONTEXT: COPY geoip_location, line 307, column city: "Yaound"
>
> I've been looking into the documentation and I could not found any reference
> in copy from a distinct codepage than the used by the database, any help?

Are you setting the client_encoding variable before doing the COPY?

-Doug

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