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Asked: 2026-06-03T05:30:27+00:00

On invocation of http://localhost:3000/tempbizs Im having the index method of the tempbiz_controller migrate data

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On invocation of 

http://localhost:3000/tempbizs

Im having the index method of the tempbiz_controller migrate data from a legacy database (sqlite3) to another postgresql inside my rails app.

It has inserted a few records. However I see that it threw the following error which is showing up on my browser:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in TempbizsController#index

PG::Error: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xca5a
: INSERT INTO "tempbizs" ("BusinessName", "BusinessSubType", "BusinessTradeName", 
"BusinessType", "City", "Country", "House", "Latitude", "LocalArea", "Longitude",     
"ZIP", "State", "Street", "Unit", "UnitType", "created_at", "updated_at") 
VALUES     ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12, $13, $14, $15, $16, $17) 
RETURNING "id"

The data I’m trying to insert is: RonZalkoTotal Body Fitness & Yoga

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have text in a different encoding than UTF-8 and you’re trying to insert it into a UTF-8 database. SQLite doesn’t do anything special for text encodings, so the data is fine in SQLite but not valid for PostgreSQL. You need to find records that are not really UTF-8 and convert them manually in order to migrate the data.

    The underlying problem is that your application isn’t handling encodings properly. The user was able to submit data in a different encoding than UTF-8 and it made it all the way to your database. You need to go through and make sure your pages are being rendered in UTF-8 and the browser is using that encoding for form submissions. You may need to check your model too. Look everywhere this table is accessed. I doubt you’re going to find a magic solution on S.O. other than go digging through your code and double check everything.

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