Hello, I have just updated to postgres8.1 and have the following problem. The first line of the "PostgreSQL database dump" says: SET client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII'; which is correct. However, the restore says: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe02031 HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding". CONTEXT: COPY <tablename>, line 1270 There are two problems. The first is, why UTF8 at all, given that the dump specifies SQL_ASCII? The second is, that at line 1270 there are (unsurprisingly) only ASCII characters, so why is psql complaining at all? Thank you. P.S. I am not subscribed, so please Cc the answers to me. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited