Ashish Karalkar wrote: > I have a data script which runs fine from PgAdmin SQL > Editor,but when I run this from command prompt I get > following error: > > > test=# \i /usr/local/pgsql/qsweb1/QSWEB_100_4_Default_Data.sql > > psql:/usr/local/pgsql/qsweb1/QSWEB_100_4_Default_Data.sql:1: > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xff > 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". > > can anybody suggest me what is going wrong. > database encoding :UTF8 > > PostgreSQL details: > > version > -------------------------------------------------------------- > PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc > (GCC) 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4) Can you tell us the following: - What is the client operating system (where you run psql and PgAdmin III)? - What is the value of the environment variable PGCLIENTENCODING set to on the client? - What does the SQL command "show client_encoding;" return when you issue it in a) PgAdmin III b) psql - Please create a file that contains only the first line of QSWEB_100_4_Default_Data.sql (I call it "l" in the following commands), run the following two (Linux) commands on it: a) od -t c l b) od -t x1 l and show us the output of both commands. Yours, Laurenz Albe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/