Re: pg_restore errors

> Trying to restore a pg_dump I get this:
>
> pg_restore: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xae
> 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 imm_lookup, line 2
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error returned by PQendcopy: ERROR: invalid
> byte
> sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xae
> 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 imm_lookup, line 2

I had a similar issue a week or 2 ago - turns out my original database was
using SQL_ASCII encoding, not UTF-8.

Can your client tell you what encoding they're using? Otherwise, just try a
few different ones. Someone else might have a tricky way to work out what
the encoding should be based on the dump (but I don't ;))

Cheers,
~p

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