Hi, I have a strange problem. I have 2 database, both created with: CREATE DATABASE muntdev WITH OWNER = postgres ENCODING = 'UTF8' TABLESPACE = pg_default; Running the queries below on the first database is OK and do what I expect. If I create a backup of the first datase and restore that backup in the second database the following happens: The first query (see below) returns 17 records, all containing 'Boonk%'. The second query (see below)returns 'ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale' Query 1: select lastname from salesordercustomer where lower(lastname) like 'boonk%' Query 2: select lastname from salesordercustomer where upper(lastname) like 'BOONK%' Both database are running *exactly* the same version of Debian Etch AMD64 and *exactly* the same version of PostgreSQL (8.1.4 for AMD64) .... Can anyone explain this to me? TIA Joost