Re: LC_MESSAGES = 'de_AT' screws restoring from dump.

Erwin Brandstetter <a9006241(at)unet(dot)univie(dot)ac(dot)at> writes:
> # While running with:
> lc_messages = 'de_AT'
> encoding = UNICODE

> psql:./e_schema.sql:157: FEHLER: could not convert UTF-8 character
> 0x00fc to ISO8859-1
> psql:./e_schema.sql:159: FEHLER: Relation naehe existiert nicht

> There seems to be something wrong with German error messages?

I suspect that de_AT on your machine implies a character set encoding
other than Unicode (likely 8859-something). So strerror() returns
a message that is in 8859-something, but the backend assumes that all
strings inside it are in Unicode, and tries to convert based on that
assumption. You need to use a locale setting that conforms to the
database encoding you've selected. It might be called de_AT.utf8
or some such.

It's a real pain in the neck that Postgres can't detect locale settings
that are incompatible with the database encoding. I don't know any
portable way to find that out, though.

regards, tom lane