"Mikel Lindsaar" <raasdnil@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If you have bad character encodings in your data, you can not backup > and restore that data using pg_dump and pg_restore, on Windows Server > 2003, using compress or plain text modes. Both modes fail on the bad > encoding when you try to restore. Are you sure that the destination database has the same encoding declaration as the source did? How was the badly-encoded data inserted in the first place? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org