diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index c24951e50ab..c7fd4050072 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -521,6 +525,20 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1 boolean rather than an integer (Neil) + + + + Some users are having problems loading UTF8 data into + 8.1.X. This is because previous versions allowed invalid UTF8 + sequences to be entered into the database, and this release + properly accepts only valid UTF8 sequences. One + way to correct a dumpfile is to use iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8. + This will remove invalid character sequences. iconv + reads the entire input file into memory so it might be necessary to + split the dump into multiple smaller files for processing. + + +