Hey Sim, Maybe this helps: http://blog.tapoueh.org/articles/blog/_Getting_out_of_SQL_ASCII,_part_2.html
2010/11/21 Sim Zacks <s...@compulab.co.il> > I am using PG 8.2.17 with UTF8 encoding. > "PostgreSQL 8.2.17 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 > (Gentoo 4.1.1)" > > One of my tables somehow has invalid characters in it: > >> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa9 >> 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". >> > I have already manually found a number of the bad rows by running queries > with text functions (upper) between groups of IDs until I found the specific > bad row. > > 1) Is there a quicker way to get a list of all rows with invalid characters > 2) Shouldn't the database prevent these rows from being entered in the > first place? > 3) I have backups of this database (using -Fc) and I noticed that on > restore, this table is not restored because of this error. Is there a way to > fix the existing backups, or tell the restore to ignore bad rows instead of > erroring out the whole table? > > Thanks > Sim > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- // Dmitriy.
