I am using Django with Heroku Postgreql. I use both English and Turkish languages on default DB settings. My DB works with no issues both locally and on Heroku. However, I get an error when I try to dump and restore a db from local to production.
psql -U user -d db_name -f "b003.dump"
psql:b003.dump:270: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3
Your file b003.dump is not in the UTF-8 encoding.
You will need to override the encoding settings, specifying the correct text encoding for the file.
It's probably iso-8859-9 if it has Turkish text, though 0xa3 is the pound symbol (£) in many of the ISO-8859 encodings.
Try:
PGCLIENTENCODING="iso-8859-9" psql ....
I also suggest checking the output of the locale command to see what your system default encoding is, and of file -bi b003.dump to try to guess the encoding.
file outputYour file isn't an SQL script style dump. It a PostgreSQL custom database dump. That's why file says:
b003.dump: PostgreSQL custom database dump - v1.12-0
Restore it with the pg_restore command.
pg_restore -f b003.dump -d db_name -U user
At some point I want to enhance psql so it tells you this, rather than failing with an error.
The weird thing here is that you must've had a lot of previous errors, before the one you showed here, if it's a custom dump.
file -bi b003.dump ?file -bi b003.dump output? You should also check what is on line 270 of the dump.As pointed in the above answer the file is a postgres custom dump and can be restored by the command: pg_restore dump_file -d db_name -U user
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/app-pgrestore.html
