On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:57:35 am MartÃn MarquÃs wrote: > Now I'm getting weirder things. I did a pg_dump with -d option and the > dump adds strange caracters: As previously stated try using the 8.4 version of pg_dump to dump the 8.3 database. FYI in 8.4+ there is no -d option anymore, it has become --inserts to reduce confusion with other commands where -d specified the database. > > ERROR: error de sintaxis en o cerca de ÂIÂ > LÃNEA 1: I^NSERT INTO objeto_datos_rep VALUES (1172339, 387943, 'Wilde... > > Could it be binary corruption (pg_dump for example)? > > 2011/3/23 Vick Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx>: > > 2011/3/23 MartÃn MarquÃs <martin.marques@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> The scenario is like this. I tried today to dump a DB from our > >> production server to load on our development server and got some > >> errors, which I show below. > > > > Try using the pg_dump from the 8.4 install to create your dump file. > > I'll try this. > > > Also make sure your 8.3 installation doesn't have a non-default bytea > > encoding setting (not sure when that setting was introduced, so there > > may not even be such a setting). > > bytea has encoding? I thought it was plain binary data. I think he was talking about bytea_output, which appeared in 9.0. In any event you may want to verify that the encodings/locales for the two databases are the same. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx |