My 8.0.1 database is using ISO_8859_8 encoding. When I select specific fields I get a warning: WARNING: ignoring unconvertible ISO_8859_8 character 0x00c2 I now want to upgrade my database to 8.2.4 and change the encoding to UTF-8. When the restore is done, I get the following errors: pg_restore: restoring data for table "manufacturers_old" pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 4836; 0 9479397 TABLE DATA manufacturers postgres pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: character 0xc2 of encoding "ISO_8859_8" has no equivalent in "UTF8" CONTEXT: COPY manufacturers_old, line 331 And no data is put into the table. Is there a function I can use to replace the unconvertable charachters to blanks? such as: update manufacturers set manufacturername=replace(manufacturername,0x00c2,'') (that query doesn't work.) Or is there another way of doing it so that I just get rid of any characters that are not convertable? Thank You Sim
