Re: COPY and Unicode...

"Cristian Prieto" <cristian@clickdiario.com> writes:

> Hello, I need to import some amount of data using the COPY command, the main
> trouble I found is that the Database is in UNICODE format and the data in
> ASCII Latin-1 codepage, when I try to import it, COPY respond with:
>
> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9
> CONTEXT:  COPY geoip_location, line 307, column city: "Yaound"
>
> I've been looking into the documentation and I could not found any reference
> in copy from a distinct codepage than the used by the database, any help?

Are you setting the client_encoding variable before doing the COPY?

-Doug