Hello!

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> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Howard Cole
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2005 13:41
> An: 'PgSql General'
> Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] Unicode Corruption and upgrading to 
> 8.0.4. to 8.1

> >> Hi everyone, I have a problem with corrupt UTF-8 sequences in my
> >> 8.0.4 dump which is preventing me from upgrading to 8.1 - 
> which spots 
> >> the errors and refuses to import the data. Is there some 
> SQL command 
> >> that I can use to fix or cauterise the sequences in the 8.0.4 
> >> database before dumping to 8.1?
> >>
> >> I think the problem arose using invalid client encodings - 
> which were 
> >> not rejected prior to 8.1.


We experienced the exact same problems. You may solve the problem by feeding 
the dump through iconv. See my earlier message on this issue

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00799.php

On top of that you'd be well advised to try dumping using pg_dump of postgresql 
8.1.

Kind regards

   Markus 

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