Migration

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newbie to the list, and look forward to helping out where I can if
possible.

I have an issue which I've not been able to get around. I have a Postgresql
7.4 server with a number of databases:

Name | Owner | Encoding

------------+----------+----------

xxx45 | postgres | UNICODE

xxx30 | postgres | UNICODE

xxx30_copy | postgres | UNICODE

yyy30 | postgres | UNICODE

xxxxxxx | postgres | UNICODE

xxxx | postgres | UNICODE

I have installed PostgreSQL 8.1 onto a new box, and when trying to create a
new database, even when specifiying -encoding=UNICODE I cannot create
UNICODE dbs, it makes them all UTF-8.

Then when I try and restore a DB dump, but keep on getting invalid "UTF-8
byte sequence detected near byte xxx" and although the restore continues, a
lot of data is missing.

Does anyone have any suggestions here, I would really appreciate it!

Regards,

James Dey

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