Re: Invalid byte sequence errors on DB restore

On Sun, 2020-03-15 at 23:18 -0500, Samuel Smith wrote:
> My current DB backup routine is just to call pg_dump and pipe to gzip. 
> We recently started to get a failure to restore (which is basically just 
> using psql -f on the pg_dump file) with the following errors:
> 
> invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa0
>   and
> invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xd7 0x20
> 
> 
> This is on a pg 9.2.24 instance. Any tips to troubleshoot?

Simple.  Fix the offending string and upgrade.

Failure to enforce correct encoding is a bug in PostgreSQL, and a
number of such bugs have been fixed over the decades, so you might
be happier with a less ancient version.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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