> However I'm running into another problem now. The command:
>
> iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8
>
> does strip out the invalid characters. However, iconv reads the
> entire file into memory before it writes out any data. This is not so
> good for multi-gigabyte dump files and doesn't allow for it to be used
> in a pipe between pg_dump and psql.
>
> Anyone have any other recommendations? GNU recode might do it, but
> I'm a bit stymied by the syntax. A quick perl script using
> Text::Iconv didn't work either. I'm off to look at some other perl
> modules and will try to create a script so I can strip out the invalid
> characters.
recode UTF-8..UTF-8 < dump_in.sql > dump_out.sql
Chris