On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I know that I have at least one instance of a varchar that is not valid UTF-8, imported from a source with errors (AMA CPT files, actually) before PG's checking was as stringent as it is today. Can anybody suggest a query to find such values? If you know which table and column the data is in, you can also do something like this: (I typed this up without checking the syntax of it. The basic idea is to cast the column as bytea, encode with the 'escape' method, then grep for back-slashes). select * from bad_table where regexp_match (encode (bad_column::bytea, 'escape'), '\\\\')); -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
