Thank you for your answer. I tryed to restore the dump file ( some data was deleted an need it to be restored ) on the same server on which was made (windows 2003 ), using the same software ( pgAmin ) used at backup. I have not change any settings for PostgreSQL server or pgAdmin. The data is not corupted because I succeded to restore it on a different computer on which I have installed the PostgreSQL and PgAmin 1.2. But I can do this on production server. > There are serveral possible reasons for this issue. > -Restoring on a newer server then the backup was > taken from. The servers got > pickier regarding encoding over several versions. > -Restoring on a server with diverent encoding then > the encoding of the server > where the backup came from. > -Restoring with a differen client encoding at the > pgAdmin (probably different > version or setting). > -Corruptet data file. > -... > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match