pg_restore UTF8 problem

Started by Thomas Burnsover 18 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Thomas Burns
tombu@schoolloop.com

Hi,

I ran into a problem while restore a database. I am converting a
database from SQLASCII to UTF8. The pg_restore fails with:

pg_restore: ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xe7
CONTEXT: COPY sl_email_messages, line 119593, column message: "In
Reply To:get a life

and terminates. What I would like to happen is for pg_restore to
ignore this error and continue on. Is there a way to make it do that?

Tom Burns

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Thomas Burns (#1)
Re: pg_restore UTF8 problem

Thomas Burns wrote:

I ran into a problem while restore a database. I am converting a
database from SQLASCII to UTF8. The pg_restore fails with:

pg_restore: ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte
0xe7 CONTEXT: COPY sl_email_messages, line 119593, column message:
"In Reply To:get a life

and terminates. What I would like to happen is for pg_restore to
ignore this error and continue on. Is there a way to make it do
that?

No, you have to find out which encoding that actually is and then set
your client encoding to that when restoring.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/