Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr>
Cc: Tomi NA <hefest@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-11-22T16:23:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:

> mydb=# SET client_encoding TO LATIN9;
> SET
> mydb=# COPY statistiques.detailrecherche (log_gid, 
> champrecherche, valeurrecherche) FROM 
> 'E:\\Production\\Temp\\detailrecherche_ansi.csv' CSV;
> ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "LATIN9": 0x00
> HINT:  This error can also happen if the byte sequence does 
> not match the encoding expected by the server, which is 
> controlled by "client_encoding".

Huh, why do you have a "0x00" byte in there?  That's certainly not
Latin9 (nor UTF8 as far as I know).

Is the file actually Latin-something or did you convert it to something
else at some point?

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