pf@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > I see the string "SET client_encoding = 'WIN1252';" in the dump -- some > files come from a remote colleague; but this has never been an issue > before... Hah! If I create the test database with encoding WIN1252 then your test fails as described. It *should* be complaining that it doesn't know how to convert from ISO-8859-1 to WIN1252, but BeginCopyFrom is neglecting to check for failure of FindDefaultConversionProc. Will fix that, thanks for the report. In the meantime, if use of WIN1252 was intentional then you'll need to find another way to transcode the data that was in that encoding. Probably, running your database in UTF8 is the best choice -- we can convert most anything to that. regards, tom lane