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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:41:10 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:20:55PM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:

> This seems to be it. This is what I should be executing, except that
> it spews out many errors, like:
> 
>    ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x80

You have bad data in your database.  Apparently, you have an encoding
of UTF-8, but you have data in there that's not UTF-8 data.  I'll bet
your other encoding is SQL_ASCII.

> This prevents my main table from being copied - Why can't the dump and
> the restore just copy the file as-is, including the encoding and such?
> What am I not doing right?

My bet is that you did initdb on one system with a locale of C and on
another with a locale of utf-8 (somehow).  You can use pg_controldata
to find out: run it against the data areas on each system.

If I'm right, then you probably want to run initidb again on the
target system.

A

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