hi I use UTF-8 as server character encoding, and use sjis as client character encoding. For some reason, some none sjis encoding character was insert into the database. WHEN I use set client_encoding='SJIS select * from xxx I got such error message Native Error: ERROR: character 0xc2a0 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS" I just want to ignore the none-sjis encoding character and go on without any errors. I use postgresql8.1, it seems that the postgresql shoud report error at the case ----------------------------- If the conversion of a particular character is not possible ? suppose you chose EUC_JP for the server and LATIN1 for the client, then some Japanese characters do not have a representation in LATIN1 ? then an error is reported. ----------------------------- Can I ignore the error message by confiing the config file? Thanks for any idea. bhyuan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings