Thanks all for the quick replies. Here is the latest issue, to verify that the pg_dump works, I'm going to do dump and restore on the same host/cluster. Source: DB_source: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) psql 8.2.4 Destination: same machine different db name echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 SET client_encoding = 'UTF8'; Command used: pg_dump -Fc srcdb > db.dump pg_restore -d devdb db.dump Results, same error. Now I'm really concerned. pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 1625; 0 16680 TABLE DATA logs watersj pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xdf69 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 logs, line 69238382 WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 1 Jesse Waters ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq