> On Mar 27, 2018, at 3:47 PM, armand pirvu <armand.pirvu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Folks > > > From another system (non postgres) as data gets changed we collect in the form like below into a named pipe which is tailed into psql -U csidba -d repdb -hrephost > > insert into foo (mydata) values ('{"mail_stop": "" , "city_id": "Garching bei M?nchen"}'); > > And got a failure > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfc > > > insert into foo (mydata) values ('{"mail_stop": "" , "city_id": "Garching bei M?nchen"}'); > > Problem is said system to convert to UTF8 is nicely put a huge amount of effort and we don't have the resources anyway at this point > > > This is not a copy, just a tailed named pipe into psql > > Is there any trick/way I can shove this data into Postgres ? I really don't care whether it read "Garching bei M?nchen" or "Garching bei Mfoonchen" > > > > Thanks > — Armand > > Sorry for double posting but I found that if I change the client_encoding to WIN1252 I am able to move forward "city_id": "Garching bei München”