| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Subject: | Re: Best practices for moving UTF8 databases |
| Date: | 2009-07-19 11:08:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20090719110801.GA18698@svana.org |
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:16:17AM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> If so, how can I check for them in my old database, which is 8.2.9?
> I'm now moving first to 8.3 (then to the 84).
>
> Really, PG absolutely needs a way to upgrade the database without so
> much data related downtime and all these silly woes. Several competing
> database systems are a cinch to upgrade.
Look through the archives, there are scripts that will scan all your
text fields for UTF-8 problems. If you run them once you can clear out
all the problems prior to upgrading.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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