Re: Changing encoding of a database

Hi Tomi.

Thanks for your answer, I was not aware of such a tool.

The next question at this point is (of course): what is the problem if
I have blob? Should I recode them as well?

Regards
Marco

On 6/20/06, Tomi NA <hefest(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Marco Bizzarri <marco(dot)bizzarri(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I all.
> >
> > We've PostgreSQL database, with SQL_ASCII or LATIN1 encoding. We would
> > like to migrate them to UNICODE. Is there some contributed/available
> > script, or this is something we should do at hand?
> >
> > Regards
> > Marco
>
> If you don't have blobs in your database, dump it to insert
> statements, use the recode tool to recode your data, create a new
> database based on UTF8 and load the data.
>
> t.n.a.
>

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