Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2008 schrieb Carol Walter: > I have some databases that use SQL ASCII or Latin1 encoding that need > to be UTF8. When I have drop the database and recreated it with the > correct encoding I get errors in restoring the data. How is this done? What is your PostgreSQL version? What is the exact command sequence? The sort of problem you describe is usually fixed by setting the client encoding correctly, but recent versions should do this automatically for dumps/restores.