On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Tom Hart wrote: >>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence >>> for encoding "UTF8": 0xc52f >> >> Try editing your dump-file and change the line which reads "SET >> client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';" to "SET client_encoding = 'LATIN1';" > > I tried making the changes you specified with notepad, wordpad, gVim, vim > and emacs and in each case pgAdmin (and pg_restore) complain about the dump > header being corrupted. Try an "-E LATIN1" option in pg_dump. Do you at least know what is the encoding of data in the database? Regards Tometzky -- ...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were... Winnie the Pooh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match