Mike Blackwell <maiku41@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a database which was originally created with LATIN1 encoding. > I'd like to move it to UTF8. The data will load ok (COPY) but I am > getting 'invalid byte sequence for encoding..." messages when accessing > the data. How exactly did you move the data? And what PG version are we talking about? > Is there a way to automatically convert the offending characters, or to > easily locate them in a pg_dump file so they can be converted by hand? If you've got client_encoding and server_encoding set up correctly, it should happen automatically during the COPY. I think you messed that up somehow, but it's not clear just how. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
