| From: | "JP Glutting" <jpglutting(at)oqua(dot)udl(dot)es> | 
|---|---|
| To: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | BUG #2360: Backup produces "ERROR: could not convert UTF8 character to ISO8859-1" | 
| Date: | 2006-03-27 10:20:23 | 
| Message-ID: | 200603271020.k2RAKNbn016868@wwwmaster.postgresql.org | 
| Views: | Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email | 
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-bugs | 
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference:      2360
Logged by:          JP Glutting
Email address:      jpglutting(at)oqua(dot)udl(dot)es
PostgreSQL version: 8.1 (8.0)
Operating system:   Windows XP SP2
Description:        Backup produces "ERROR: could not convert UTF8 character
to ISO8859-1"
Details: 
There seems to be a bug in version 8.1 that produces this error when doing a
pg_dump (or pg_dumpall) of a database with certain characters in it. I am
not sure exactly which characters they are, but they did not cause a problem
in Postgres 8.0, because some of the databases that I cannot backup were
backed up from 8.0 and restored into 8.1 (there are also problems with data
entered directly into Postgres 8.1). 
I have a test database with a single table in it as a test case. I can
backup this table (or database) from Postgres 8.0, and restore it into both
8.0 and 8.1. I can also back it up again from 8.0, but it will not backup
(or dump) from 8.1 (either from the command line or pgadmin3)
I can provide the test datbase (or table) in any format you would like. I
have yet to test this on Linux, but I will have a test box with Ubuntu 5.10
and Postgres 8.1 available soon.
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Jim C. Nasby | 2006-03-27 11:23:30 | Re: BUG #2358: Vacuum & \dt problems | 
| Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2006-03-27 01:34:46 | Re: Followup comment for bug report 'postmaster ignores SIGPIPE' [was: Bug#255208: Would help with client aborts, too.] |