Re: JDBC COPY error encoding

["Kalle Hallivuori" <kato(at)iki(dot)fi>]

Hi!

2007/8/20, ttvvaa <ttvvaa(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> I use PostgreSQL 8.2 for WinXP (SP2).
> I try to use "postgresql-jdbc-8.2-505-copy-20070719.jdbc3.jar"
> (from http://kato.iki.fi/sw/db/postgresql/jdbc/copy/):
>
>            FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream("D://t.txt");
>            ((PGConnection)con).getCopyAPI().copyIntoDB("COPY table1 FROM
> STDIN", fs);
>            fs.close();
>
> but have error: 'org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: invalid byte
> sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa0'.
>
> file 'D://t.txt' used WIN866 encoding.
> DB used UTF8 encoding.
>
> Command successfully runs in psql-console:
>       set client_encoding to WIN866;
>       copy table1(nn) from 'd://t.txt';
>
> How can I solve this problem?

JDBC copy does not know the encoding in the provided bytestream. Thus
you have to convert the data to encoding used by server by yourself,
before feeding it to copy.

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