Re: Importing binary data

Thanks guys. I know what I will spend the night, doing ;).


> On Oct 27, 2014, at 16:33 , Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Chris Ruprecht <chris@cdrbill.com> writes:
>> I can export the data out of that database into flat files just fine, but then I try to import the data to Postgres,
I'mgetting errors like this: 
>
>> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "SQL_ASCII": 0x00
>> CONTEXT:  COPY attachments, line 14: "58025     1       cl\Cert.r       10
M04P'15A415).($-H87)4:6UE+$-(05)!0U1%4BQ)3E!55"!I5&EM92!)3E1%  M1T52'$585$523B!7..." 
>
>> I tried LATIN1, SQL_ASCII, UTF-8, nothing works. I even tried to make the data type 'bytea', no luck. I'd love to
havea "NO-CONVERSION" option on the copy command that just takes what ever bytes come along and doesn't try to
interpretthem. 
>
> That's hardly possible, considering you're expecting COPY to recognize
> field and record boundaries.  What you probably need to do here is declare
> the column as bytea and then write some sort of preprocessing script that
> converts the binary data into hex-encoded form (basically \x followed by
> hex digits, if memory serves, but check the description of bytea in the
> PG manual).
>
>             regards, tom lane