"Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)" <matt.baluyos.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> There are some data that we need to input at the moment and it would
> be helpful to *temporarily* disable this setting while our developers
> try to sort out some filtering mechanism at the application level to
> strip these invalid byte sequences.
You could set the database encoding to SQL_ASCII, if you want to
lobotomize the encoding-related functionality.
regards, tom lane