Re: Upgrading postgresql from version 7.4.3

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading postgresql from version 7.4.3
Date: 2013-05-10 04:20:38
Message-ID: 518C7596.3050502@hogranch.com
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On 5/9/2013 9:12 PM, Arun P.L wrote:
> Since there was some issue with hotmail I couldn't reply earlier.
>
> Encoding in version 7.4 was SQL_ASCII. What's the best way to deal
> with this?
> I hope changing the encoding to UTF-8 while taking dump will work.

SQL_ASCII means that postgres has no encoding, it just treats it as
bytes. any values could be stored, and its quite likely that they
aren't UTF8 compatible

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