Re: Questions about encoding between two databases

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Archibald Zimonyi <arsi(at)aranzo(dot)netg(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Questions about encoding between two databases
Date: 2009-08-21 16:46:44
Message-ID: 5911.1250873204@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Archibald Zimonyi <arsi(at)aranzo(dot)netg(dot)se> writes:
> I went into the generated dump file and (more wish then anything else)
> tried to simply change the encoding from LATIN1 to UTF8 and then load the
> file, it did not complain about incorrect encoding setting for the load,
> however it complained that the characters did not match true UTF8
> characters (which was almost what I guessed would happen).

Indeed. Do *not* change the client_encoding setting in the dump file.
You can edit the ENCODING options in the CREATE DATABASE commands
though. (Didn't we explain this to you already?)

regards, tom lane

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