Re: Update - pg_dumpall money problem

Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> writes:
> I've done a pg_dumpall and then imported that to the new system but a
> copy is failing with the following:

> psql:/backups/eddie_pg_dumpall.sql:3076: ERROR:  invalid input syntax
> for type money: "�3.18"
> CONTEXT:  COPY invoices, line 1, column net: "�3.18"

> I asume that this is because 7.2 includes the currency sign, and 7.4
> doesn't like it.

No, money still expects a currency sign.  It looks to me like the
problem is that the new database doesn't have the same monetary locale
as the old one, and so it doesn't think � is the right currency
sign.  You can fix this by changing the LC_MONETARY parameter.

            regards, tom lane