Re: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfc

> On Mar 27, 2018, at 3:47 PM, armand pirvu  wrote:
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> Folks
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> From another system (non postgres) as data gets changed we collect in the form like below into a named pipe which is tailed into psql -U csidba -d repdb -hrephost
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> insert into foo (mydata) values ('{"mail_stop": "" , "city_id": "Garching bei M?nchen"}');
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> And got a failure 
> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfc
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> insert into foo (mydata) values ('{"mail_stop": "" , "city_id": "Garching bei M?nchen"}');
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> Problem is said system to convert to UTF8 is nicely put a huge amount of effort and we don't have the resources anyway at this point
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> This is not a copy, just a tailed named pipe into psql
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> Is there any trick/way I can shove this data into Postgres ? I really don't care whether it read "Garching bei M?nchen" or "Garching bei Mfoonchen"
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> Thanks
> — Armand
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> 

Sorry for double posting but I found that if I change the client_encoding to WIN1252 I am able to move forward

"city_id": "Garching bei München”